The Neighborly Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDFEGE HIHIJKLKECEM NONPEQEFFRF STUTLVAVHNWN| Some are eager to be famous some are striving | A |
| to be great | B |
| Some are toiling to be leaders of their nation | C |
| or their state | B |
| And in every man's ambition if we only understood | D |
| There is much that's fine and splendid every | E |
| hope is mostly good | D |
| So I cling unto the notion that contented I | F |
| will be | E |
| If the men upon life's pathway find a needed | G |
| friend in me | E |
| - | |
| I rather like to putter 'round the walks and | H |
| yards of life | I |
| To spray at night the roses that are burned and | H |
| browned with strife | I |
| To eat a frugal dinner but always to have a | J |
| chair | K |
| For the unexpected stranger that my simple | L |
| meal would share | K |
| I don't care to be a traveler I would rather be | E |
| the one | C |
| Sitting calmly by the roadside helping weary | E |
| travelers on | M |
| - | |
| I'd like to be a neighbor in the good old fashioned way | N |
| Finding much to do for others but not over | O |
| much to say | N |
| I like to read the papers but I do not yearn | P |
| to see | E |
| What the journal of the morning has been | Q |
| moved to say of me | E |
| In the silences and shadows I would live my | F |
| life and die | F |
| And depend for fond remembrance on some | R |
| grateful passers by | F |
| - | |
| I guess I wasn't fashioned for the brilliant | S |
| things of earth | T |
| Wasn't gifted much with talent or designed for | U |
| special worth | T |
| But was just sent here to putter with life's little | L |
| odds and ends | V |
| And keep a simple corner where the stirring | A |
| highway bends | V |
| And if folks should chance to linger worn and | H |
| weary through the day | N |
| To do some needed service and to cheer them | W |
| on their way | N |
Edgar Albert Guest
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