Out In The Open Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEE AAFFGGHHII AAJJKKHHIIOUT in the open I long to be free | A |
Where the song that I hear is the song of the sea | A |
And the voice that I list to is soothing and sweet | B |
Away from the sound of the tramping of feet | B |
Not urging me ceaselessly into the fray | C |
Not spurring me ever to work when I 'd play | C |
Not picturing fame with its wealth and its power | D |
And the glory to be in my conquering hour | D |
But a voice that is tender and soothing and low | E |
That bids me to rest and to live as I go | E |
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Out in the open I long to be free | A |
To lazily dream in the shade of a tree | A |
To gaze into space where are pictures that soothe | F |
Of life as a river unruffled and smooth | F |
Not men at the forges not men at the plows | G |
Not men winning wealth by the sweat of their brows | G |
Not men sore of muscle and weary of brain | H |
Unwilling to pause lest another should gain | H |
The heights they are seeking but men who can rest | I |
And know that in living the dreaming is best | I |
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Out in the open I long to be free | A |
Away from the haunts of the glories to be | A |
To tune my poor soul to the song of a star | J |
And live for a while in the glories that are | J |
To rest when I 'm weary and drop from the strife | K |
Content with the blessings God gives us with life | K |
Not bound to the forge or the plow by a chain | H |
That keeps men at work for the glory of gain | H |
No slave to the future too frightened to rest | I |
But living the present and finding it blest | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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