Soliloquy In Circles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EE FF GH FF II HH AA JA AA FF HH KK AA| Being a father | A |
| Is quite a bother | A |
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| You are as free as air | B |
| With time to spare | B |
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| You're a fiscal rocket | C |
| With change in your pocket | C |
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| And then one morn | D |
| A child is born | D |
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| Your life has been runcible | E |
| Irresponsible | E |
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| Like an arrow or javelin | F |
| You've been constantly travelin' | F |
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| But mostly I daresay | G |
| Without a chaise perc e | H |
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| To which by comparison | F |
| Nothing's embarison | F |
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| But all children matures | I |
| Maybe even yours | I |
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| You improve them mentally | H |
| And straighten them dentally | H |
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| They grow tall as a lancer | A |
| And ask questions you can't answer | A |
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| And supply you with data | J |
| About how everybody else wears lipstick sooner and stays up later | A |
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| And if they are popular | A |
| The phone they monopular | A |
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| They scorn the dominion | F |
| Of their parent's opinion | F |
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| They're no longer corralable | H |
| Once they find that you're fallible | H |
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| But after you've raised them and educated them and gowned them | K |
| They just take their little fingers and wrap you around them | K |
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| Being a father Is quite a bother | A |
| But I like it rather | A |
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