Names And Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JK KLHLH MNMNJOJO PIPIQEQEI do not ask a store of wealth | A |
Nor special gift of power | B |
I hope always for strength and health | A |
To brave each troubled hour | B |
But life would be distinctly good | C |
However low my place is | D |
Had I a memory that could | C |
Remember names and faces | E |
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I am not troubled by the fact | F |
That common skill is mine | G |
I care not that my life has lacked | F |
The glory of the fine | G |
But oh when someone speaks to me | H |
My cheeks grow red with shame | I |
Because I'm sure that he must see | H |
That I have lost his name | I |
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Embarrassment where'er I go | J |
Pursues me night and day | K |
I hear some good friend's glad 'Hello ' | - |
And stop a word to say | K |
His voice melodiously may ring | L |
But that's all lost on me | H |
For all the time I'm wondering | L |
Whoever can he be | H |
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I envy no man's talent rare | M |
Save his who can repeat | N |
The names of men no matter where | M |
It is they chance to meet | N |
For he escapes the bitter blow | J |
The sorrow and regret | O |
Of greeting friends he ought to know | J |
As though they'd never met | O |
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I do not ask a store of gold | P |
High station here or fame | I |
I have no burning wish to hold | P |
The popular acclaim | I |
Life's lanes I'd gladly journey through | Q |
Nor mind the stony places | E |
Could I but do as others do | Q |
And know men's names and faces | E |
Edgar Albert Guest
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