A Boy's Trials Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBHB IJKJ LBMB NOCO PBAB FQRQ SBTB UAVA EBCB| When I was but a little lad | A |
| One thing I could not bear | B |
| It was to stand at mother's knee | C |
| And have her comb my hair | B |
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| They didn't keep boys' hair as short | D |
| As it's kept now a days | E |
| And mine was always tangled up | F |
| In twenty different ways | E |
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| I'd twist my mouth and grit my teeth | G |
| And say it wasn't fair | B |
| It was a trial and no mistake | H |
| When mother combed my hair | B |
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| She'd brush and brush each stubborn curl | I |
| That grew upon my pate | J |
| And with her scissors nip and clip | K |
| To make the edges straight | J |
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| Then smooth it down until it shone | L |
| While I would grin and bear | B |
| And feel a martyr through and through | M |
| When mother combed my hair | B |
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| She'd take my round chin in her hand | N |
| And hold it there the while | O |
| She made the parting carefully | C |
| Then tell me with a smile | O |
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| Don't push your cap down on your curls | P |
| And spoil my work and care | B |
| He is a pretty little lad | A |
| When mother combs his hair | B |
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| I'd hurry out and rumple up | F |
| That mop of hair so thick | Q |
| A vandal I for she had worked | R |
| So hard to make it slick | Q |
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| And wish I were a grown up man | S |
| So nobody would dare | B |
| To put a washrag in my ears | T |
| Or comb my tangled hair | B |
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| Heigho now that I'm bald and gray | U |
| Methinks I would be glad | A |
| To have her smooth my brow and cheeks | V |
| And whisper Mother's lad | A |
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| A longing for the care free days | E |
| Doth take me unaware | B |
| To stand a boy at mother's knee | C |
| And have her comb my hair | B |
Jean Blewett
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