Come On In, The Senility Is Fine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDCEBEBFGFBBHIJI BCCBKB| People live forever in Jacksonville and St Petersburg and Tampa | A |
| But you don't have to live forever to become a grampa | A |
| The entrance requirements for grampahood are comparatively mild | B |
| You only have to live until your child has a child | B |
| From that point on you start looking both ways over your shoulder | C |
| Because sometimes you feel thirty years younger and sometimes | D |
| thirty years older | C |
| Now you begin to realize who it was that reached the height of | E |
| imbecility | B |
| It was whoever said that grandparents have all the fun and none of | E |
| the responsibility | B |
| This is the most enticing spiderwebs of a tarradiddle ever spun | F |
| Because everybody would love to have a baby around who was no | G |
| responsibility and lots of fun | F |
| But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby | B |
| Who would trust their own child to raise a baby | B |
| So you have to personally superintend your grandchild from diapers | H |
| to pants and from bottle to spoon | I |
| Because you know that your own child hasn't sense enough to come | J |
| in out of a typhoon | I |
| You don't have to live forever to become a grampa but if you do | B |
| want to live forever | C |
| Don't try to be clever | C |
| If you wish to reach the end of the trail with an uncut throat | B |
| Don't go around saying Quote I don't mind being a grampa but I | K |
| hate being married to a gramma Unquote | B |
Ogden Nash
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