Names And Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JK KLHLH MNMNJOJO PIPIQEQE| I 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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