Out In The Open Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE AAFFGGHHII AAJJKKHHII

OUT in the open I long to be freeA
Where the song that I hear is the song of the seaA
And the voice that I list to is soothing and sweetB
Away from the sound of the tramping of feetB
Not urging me ceaselessly into the frayC
Not spurring me ever to work when I 'd playC
Not picturing fame with its wealth and its powerD
And the glory to be in my conquering hourD
But a voice that is tender and soothing and lowE
That bids me to rest and to live as I goE
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Out in the open I long to be freeA
To lazily dream in the shade of a treeA
To gaze into space where are pictures that sootheF
Of life as a river unruffled and smoothF
Not men at the forges not men at the plowsG
Not men winning wealth by the sweat of their browsG
Not men sore of muscle and weary of brainH
Unwilling to pause lest another should gainH
The heights they are seeking but men who can restI
And know that in living the dreaming is bestI
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Out in the open I long to be freeA
Away from the haunts of the glories to beA
To tune my poor soul to the song of a starJ
And live for a while in the glories that areJ
To rest when I 'm weary and drop from the strifeK
Content with the blessings God gives us with lifeK
Not bound to the forge or the plow by a chainH
That keeps men at work for the glory of gainH
No slave to the future too frightened to restI
But living the present and finding it blestI

Edgar Albert Guest



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