Peekabo, I Almost See You Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEBFGGHIJHKLGGGMF MGNOPOQRSR| Middle aged life is merry and I love to | A |
| lead it | B |
| But there comes a day when your eyes | C |
| are all right but your arm isn't long | D |
| enough | E |
| to hold the telephone book where you can read it | B |
| And your friends get jocular so you go | F |
| to the oculist | G |
| And of all your friends he is the joculist | G |
| So over his facetiousness let us skim | H |
| Only noting that he has been waiting for you ever since | I |
| you said Good evening to his grandfather clock under | J |
| the impression that it was him | H |
| And you look at his chart and it says SHRDLU QWERTYOP | K |
| and you say Well why SHRDNTLU QWERTYOP and he | L |
| says one set of glasses won't do | G |
| You need two | G |
| One for reading Erle Stanley Gardner's Perry Mason and | G |
| Keats's Endymion with | M |
| And the other for walking around without saying Hello | F |
| to strange wymion with | M |
| So you spend your time taking off your seeing glasses to put | G |
| on your reading glasses and then remembering that your | N |
| reading glasses are upstairs or in the car | O |
| And then you can't find your seeing glasses again because | P |
| without them on you can't see where they are | O |
| Enough of such mishaps they would try the patience of an | Q |
| ox | R |
| I prefer to forget both pairs of glasses and pass my declining | S |
| years saluting strange women and grandfather clocks | R |
Ogden Nash
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