Picture Books Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGHH IIJJCCKK LLGGMMNN OOPPDDQ| I HOLD the finest picture books | A |
| Are woods an' fields an' runnin' brooks | A |
| An' when the month o' May has done | B |
| Her paintin' an' the mornin' sun | B |
| Is lightin' just exactly right | C |
| Each gorgeous scene for mortal sight | C |
| I steal a day from toil an' go | D |
| To see the springtime's picture show | D |
| - | |
| It's everywhere I choose to tread | E |
| Perhaps I'll find a violet bed | E |
| Half hidden by the larger scenes | F |
| Or group of ferns or living greens | F |
| So graceful an' so fine I swear | G |
| That angels must have placed them there | G |
| To beautify the lonely spot | H |
| That mortal man would have forgot | H |
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| What hand can paint a picture book | I |
| So marvelous as a runnin' brook | I |
| It matters not what time o' day | J |
| You visit it the sunbeams play | J |
| Upon it just exactly right | C |
| The mysteries of God to light | C |
| No human brush could ever trace | K |
| A droopin' willow with such grace | K |
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| Page after page new beauties rise | L |
| To thrill with gladness an' surprise | L |
| The soul of him who drops his care | G |
| And seeks the woods to wander there | G |
| Birds with the angel gift o' song | M |
| Make music for him all day long | M |
| An' nothin' that is base or mean | N |
| Disturbs the grandeur of the scene | N |
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| There is no hint of hate or strife | O |
| The woods display the joy of life | O |
| An' answer with a silence fine | P |
| The scoffer's jeer at power divine | P |
| When doubt is high an' faith is low | D |
| Back to the woods an' fields I go | D |
| An' say to violet and tree | Q |
| 'No mortal hand has fashioned thee ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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