Wisdom's Haunts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKLMLM NONOPQPQ| Way out in the woods there are brothers who read | A |
| By the light of a candle in Greek | B |
| And in far away places are thousands indeed | C |
| Who several languages speak | B |
| I have sat near a stove in a queer little store | D |
| Where the farmers were gathered and heard | E |
| A learned discussion of classical lore | D |
| That my soul with amazement has stirred | E |
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| I have looked at rough hands and at storm weathered cheeks | F |
| And imagined their master to be | G |
| Uncultured untutored as wild as the creeks | F |
| That are rushing their way to the sea | G |
| But I've found just behind the stern mask that he wears | H |
| In the simplest of style and of dress | I |
| A knowledge of life and a grasp of affairs | H |
| That professors don't always possess | I |
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| I blush for the arrogant city man's ways | J |
| Who struts in his pomp and his pride | K |
| And thinks that all wisdom in city walls stays | J |
| And fools in the country abide | K |
| For out in life's forests and out on its plains | L |
| By the side of her mountains and brooks | M |
| In the roughest of garments are scholars with brains | L |
| Who know the inside of their books | M |
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| Oh fool from the city who views with a sneer | N |
| What is not of the city itself | O |
| For what are the things that you seem to revere | N |
| But the glint and the glitter of pelf | O |
| You are warped with conceit and are prejudice blind | P |
| And you know not the truth of the earth | Q |
| That wherever men labor there always you'll find | P |
| The things that are really of worth | Q |
Edgar Albert Guest
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