The Need Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCDCEFGFHDD IJBJKLMLDDND IOPODQRQJDSD DTHUHVWVID| A | |
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| We were sittin' there | B |
| and smokin' of our pipes discussin' things | C |
| Like taxes votes for wimmin | D |
| an' the totterin' thrones of kings | C |
| When he ups an' strokes his whiskers | E |
| with his hand an' says to me | F |
| 'Changin' laws an' legislatures ain't | G |
| as fur as I can see | F |
| Goin' to make this world much better | H |
| unless somehow we can | D |
| Find a way to make a better an' a finer sort o' man | D |
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| 'The trouble ain't with statutes or with systems | I |
| not at all | J |
| It's with humans jus' like we air | B |
| an' their petty ways an' small | J |
| We could stop our writin' law books | K |
| an' our regulatin' rules | L |
| If a better sort of manhood | M |
| was the product of our schools | L |
| For the things that we air needin' | D |
| isn't writing' from a pen | D |
| Or bigger guns to shoot with | N |
| but a bigger type of men | D |
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| 'I reckon all these problems | I |
| air jest ornery like the weeds | O |
| They grow in soil that oughta nourish | P |
| only decent deeds | O |
| An' they waste our time an' fret us when | D |
| if we were thinkin' straight | Q |
| An' livin' right | R |
| they wouldn't be so terrible and great | Q |
| A good horse needs no snaffle | J |
| and a good man I opine | D |
| Doesn't need a law to check him | S |
| or to force him into line | D |
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| 'If we ever start in teachin' to our children | D |
| year by year | T |
| How to live with one another | H |
| there'll be less o' trouble here | U |
| If we'd teach 'em how to neighbor | H |
| an' to walk in honor's ways | V |
| We could settle every problem | W |
| which the mind o' man can raise | V |
| What we're needin' isn't systems | I |
| or some regulatin' plan | D |
| But a bigger an' a finer an' a truer type o' man ' | - |
Edgar Albert Guest
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