At Sugar Camp Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL MNMNOPOP AQAQIKIK| At Sugar Camp the cook is kind | A |
| And laughs the laugh we knew as boys | B |
| And there we slip away and find | A |
| Awaiting us the old time joys | B |
| The catbird calls the selfsame way | C |
| She used to in the long ago | D |
| And there's a chorus all the day | C |
| Of songsters it is good to know | D |
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| The killdeer in the distance cries | E |
| The thrasher in her garb of brown | F |
| From tree to tree in gladness flies | E |
| Forgotten is the world's renown | F |
| Forgotten are the years we've known | G |
| At Sugar Camp there are no men | H |
| We've ceased to strive for things to own | G |
| We're in the woods as boys again | H |
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| Our pride is in the strength of trees | I |
| Our pomp the pomp of living things | J |
| Our ears are tuned to melodies | I |
| That every feathered songster sings | J |
| At Sugar Camp our noonday meal | K |
| Is eaten in the open air | L |
| Where through the leaves the sunbeams steal | K |
| And simple is our bill of fare | L |
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| At Sugar Camp in peace we dwell | M |
| And none is boastful of himself | N |
| None plots to gain with shot and shell | M |
| His neighbor's bit of land or pelf | N |
| The roar of cannon isn't heard | O |
| There stilled is money's tempting voice | P |
| Someone detects a new come bird | O |
| And at her presence all rejoice | P |
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| At Sugar Camp the cook is kind | A |
| His steak is broiling o'er the coals | Q |
| And in its sputtering we find | A |
| Sweet harmony for tired souls | Q |
| There sheltered by the friendly trees | I |
| As boys we sit to eat our meal | K |
| And brothers to the birds and bees | I |
| We hold communion with the real | K |
Edgar Albert Guest
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