The Wise And Good Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC D EEF GDH I J KKL EE| 'O father I saw at the church as I passed | A |
| The populace gathered in numbers so vast | A |
| That they couldn't get in and their voices were low | B |
| And they looked as if suffering terrible woe ' | C |
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| ''Twas the funeral child of a gentleman dead | D |
| For whom the great heart of humanity bled ' | - |
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| 'What made it bleed father for every day | E |
| Somebody passes forever away | E |
| Do the newspaper men print a column or more | F |
| Of every person whose troubles are o'er ' | - |
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| 'O no they could never do that and indeed | G |
| Though printers might print it no reader would read | D |
| To the sepulcher all soon or late must be borne | H |
| But 'tis only the Wise and the Good that all mourn ' | - |
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| 'That's right father dear but how can our eyes | I |
| Distinguish in dead men the Good and the Wise ' | - |
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| 'That's easy enough to the stupidest mind | J |
| They're poor and in dying leave nothing behind ' | - |
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| 'Seest thou in mine eye father anything green | K |
| And takest thy son for a gaping marine | K |
| Go tell thy fine tale of the Wise and the Good | L |
| Who are poor and lamented to babes in the wood ' | - |
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| And that horrible youth as I hastened away | E |
| Was building a wink that affronted the day | E |
Ambrose Bierce
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