My Soul And I Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDD EEBFFGG HHIIJ KLKMNOO| When winter shuts a fellow in and turns the lock upon his door | A |
| There's nothing else for him to do but sit and dream his bygones o'er | B |
| And then before an open fire he smokes his pipe while in the blaze | C |
| He seems to see a picture show of all his happy yesterdays | C |
| No ordinary film is that which memory throws upon the screen | D |
| But one in which his hidden soul comes out and can be plainly seen | D |
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| Now I've been dreaming by the grate I've seen myself the way I am | E |
| Stripped bare of affectation's garb and wisdom's pose and folly's sham | E |
| I've seen my soul and talked with it and learned some things I never | B |
| knew | F |
| I walk about the world as one but I express the wish of two | F |
| I've come to see the soul of me is wiser than my selfish mind | G |
| For it has safely led me through the tangled paths I've left behind | G |
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| I should have sold myself for gold when I was young long years ago | H |
| But for my soul which whispered then 'You love your home and garden so | H |
| You never could be quite content in palace walls Once rise to fame | I |
| And you will lose the gentler joys which now so eagerly you claim | I |
| I want to walk these lanes with you and keep the comradeship of trees | J |
| Let you and I be happy here nor seek life's gaudy luxuries ' | - |
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| Mine is a curious soul I guess it seemed so smiling in my dreams | K |
| It keeps me close to little folks and birds and flowers and running | L |
| streams | K |
| To Mother and her friends and mine and though no fortune we possess | M |
| The years that we have lived and loved have all been rich with happiness | N |
| I'm glad the snowdrifts shut me in for I have had a chance to see | O |
| How fortunate I've been to have that sort of soul to counsel me | O |
Edgar Albert Guest
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