The Wide Outdoors Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE BBFF GHII| The rich may pay for orchids rare but Oh the apple tree | A |
| Flings out its blossoms to the world for every eye to see | A |
| And all who sigh for loveliness may walk beneath the sky | B |
| And claim a richer beauty than man's gold can ever buy | B |
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| The blooming cherry trees are free for all to look upon | C |
| The dogwood buds for all of us and not some favorite one | D |
| The wide outdoors is no man's own the stranger on the street | E |
| Can cast his eyes on many a rose and claim its fragrance sweet | E |
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| Small gardens are shut in by walls but none can wall the sky | B |
| And none can hide the friendly trees from all who travel by | B |
| And none can hold the apple boughs and claim them for his own | F |
| For all the beauties of the earth belong to God alone | F |
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| So let me walk the world just now and wander far and near | G |
| Earth's loveliness is mine to see its music mine to hear | H |
| There's not a single apple bough that spills its blooms about | I |
| But I can claim the joy of it and none can shut me out | I |
Edgar Albert Guest
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