First Child ... Second Child Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEECCFFBBGGHHII JJKKLLCC M CCBBFIRST | 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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