First Child ... Second Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEECCFFBBGGHHII JJKKLLCC M CCBB| FIRST | A |
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| Be it a girl or one of the boys | B |
| It is scarlet all over its avoirdupois | B |
| It is red it is boiled could the obstetrician | C |
| Have possibly been a lobstertrician | C |
| His degrees and credentials were hunky dory | D |
| But how's for an infantile inventory | D |
| Here's the prodigy here's the miracle | E |
| Whether its head is oval or spherical | E |
| You rejoice to find it has only one | C |
| Having dreaded a two headed daughter or son | C |
| Here's the phenomenon all complete | F |
| It's got two hands it's got two feet | F |
| Only natural but pleasing because | B |
| For months you have dreamed of flippers or claws | B |
| Furthermore it is fully equipped | G |
| Fingers and toes with nails are tipped | G |
| It's even got eyes and a mouth clear cut | H |
| When the mouth comes open the eyes go shut | H |
| When the eyes go shut the breath is loosed | I |
| And the presence of lungs can be deduced | I |
| Let the rockets flash and the cannon thunder | J |
| This child is a marvel a matchless wonder | J |
| A staggering child a child astounding | K |
| Dazzling diaperless dumbfounding | K |
| Stupendous miraculous unsurpassed | L |
| A child to stagger and flabbergast | L |
| Bright as a button sharp as a thorn | C |
| And the only perfect one ever born | C |
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| SECOND | M |
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| Arrived this evening at half past nine | C |
| Everybody is doing fine | C |
| Is it a boy or quite the reverse | B |
| You can call in the morning and ask the nurse | B |
Ogden Nash
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