The Trouble With Snowmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GD HIJK LJMJ NOPO QRCR| 'The trouble with snowmen ' | A |
| Said my father one year | B |
| 'They are no sooner made | C |
| than they just disappear | B |
| - | |
| I'll build you a snowman | D |
| And I'll build it to last | E |
| Add sand and cement | F |
| And then have it cast | E |
| - | |
| And so every winter ' | - |
| He went on to explain | G |
| 'You shall have a snowman | D |
| Be it sunshine or rain ' | - |
| - | |
| And that snowman still stands | H |
| Though my father is gone | I |
| Out there in the garden | J |
| Like an unmarked gravestone | K |
| - | |
| Staring up at the house | L |
| Gross and misshapen | J |
| As if waiting for something | M |
| Bad to happen | J |
| - | |
| For as the years pass | N |
| And I grow older | O |
| When summers seem short | P |
| And winters colder | O |
| - | |
| The snowmen I envy | Q |
| As I watch children play | R |
| Are the ones that are made | C |
| And then fade away | R |
Roger Mcgough
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