The Home Builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBCCEEFFCCGG HHCC| The world is filled with bustle and with selfishness and greed | A |
| It is filled with restless people that are dreaming of a deed | A |
| You can read it in their faces they are dreaming of the day | B |
| When they'll come to fame and fortune and put all their cares away | B |
| And I think as I behold them though it's far indeed they roam | C |
| They will never find contentment save they seek for it at home | C |
| I watch them as they hurry through the surging lines of men | D |
| Spurred to speed by grim ambition and I know they're dreaming then | D |
| They are weary sick and footsore but their goal seems far away | B |
| And it's little they've accomplished at the ending of the day | B |
| It is rest they're vainly seeking love and laughter in the gloam | C |
| But they'll never come to claim it save they claim it here at home | C |
| For the peace that is the sweetest isn't born of minted gold | E |
| And the joy that lasts the longest and still lingers when we're old | E |
| Is no dim and distant pleasure it is not to morrow's prize | F |
| It is not the end of toiling or the rainbow of our sighs | F |
| It' is every day within us all the rest is hippodrome | C |
| And the soul that is the gladdest is the soul that builds a home | C |
| They are fools who build for glory They are fools who pin their hopes | G |
| On the come and go of battles or some vessel's slender ropes | G |
| They shall sicken and shall wither and shall never peace attain | H |
| Who believe that real contentment only men victorious gain | H |
| For the only happy toilers under earth's majestic dome | C |
| Are the ones who find their glories in the little spot called home | C |
Edgar Albert Guest
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