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