Learn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBC ADDEC AFFFC ACCCC AGGGH ACCCH AIIIC ACCCCLearn learn learn | A |
Our beautiful world is not a field for sheep | B |
Not just a place wherein to laugh and weep | B |
To eat and drink to dance and sigh and sleep | B |
And then to moulder into senseless dust | C |
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Learn learn learn | A |
Look up and learn you cannot look too high | D |
Not for the earthly wealth which brains can buy | D |
Not for the sake of gold and luxury | E |
Treasures corrupted by the moth and rust | C |
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Learn learn learn | A |
As one in whom the Lord has breathed His breath | F |
And aye redeem d from the power of death | F |
Not as the dumb brute beast that perisheth | F |
Not as a soulless thoughtless thankless clod | C |
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Learn learn learn | A |
With love and awe and patience not in haste | C |
Drink deeply do not pass by with a taste | C |
O make your land a garden not a waste | C |
Your mind bright to reflect the face of God | C |
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Learn learn learn | A |
The mystic beauty and the truth of life | G |
Search out the treasures whereof earth is rife | G |
Search on all sides with pain and prayer and strife | G |
Search even into darkness Do not fear | H |
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Learn learn learn | A |
With a true steadfast heart lay up your hoard | C |
God will sort out the treasures you have stored | C |
And set them in His bright light afterward | C |
He will make all your difficulties clear | H |
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Learn learn learn | A |
Death is no breaking at a certain place | I |
We only pause there for a little space | I |
And then you would not shame Him to His face | I |
You in His Image and own Likeness made | C |
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Learn learn learn | A |
Walk with wide open eyes and reverent heart | C |
Worship as God the beautiful in art | C |
Though you see now but dimly and in part | C |
All shall be clear in time Be not afraid | C |
Ada Cambridge
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