Copy Paper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EAEAFGFG HDHDAIAI AJAAAKAK AAAJLBLB| I START the day with paper white | A |
| And put it in my old machine | B |
| And wonder whether as I write | A |
| The night will find my copy clean | B |
| Will this day's finished task be fair | C |
| Or full of blemishes and flaws | D |
| Will what my hands have written there | C |
| Deserve derision or applause | D |
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| Have I put down a single thing | E |
| That better would have been unwrit | A |
| Have I let pass a jibe or fling | E |
| With venom at the point of it | A |
| This paper spotless came to me | F |
| How will it leave my little den | G |
| What will the printer's judgment be | F |
| And what will say my fellow men | G |
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| 'Tis mine to do with as I will | H |
| I view the finished work and pause | D |
| Here is a thought that I must kill | H |
| And here a verse that's full of flaws | D |
| And here's a line that I'd regret | A |
| If ever I should let it go | I |
| The paper now is blurred and yet | A |
| I much prefer to have it so | I |
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| Tomorrow it will be too late | A |
| Whatever is must stand for aye | J |
| If I have penned a line in hate | A |
| That stays the record for today | A |
| And whether it be good or bad | A |
| I cannot change one single line | K |
| My chance to be of worth I've had | A |
| And every blemish there is mine | K |
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| My life is like the paper sheet | A |
| On which I toil from day to day | A |
| And there the bitter and the sweet | A |
| Are written down to last for aye | J |
| And oh I hope when comes the call | L |
| That takes me from this earthly scene | B |
| The God above who judges all | L |
| Will find my copy fairly clean | B |
Edgar Albert Guest
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