Honest John Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGIJJ KLKMNO PCPCQQ QRQRSS QTQTUU VWVWXX EYZYA2A2He was a man whose lot was cast | A |
As some might think in lines severe | B |
In humble toil whose life was passed | A |
From week to week from year to year | B |
And yet by wife and children blessed | C |
He labored on with cheerful zest | C |
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As one revered and set apart | D |
A quaint unusual name he bore | E |
That well became the frugal heart | D |
While plain habiliments he wore | E |
Without a tremor or a chill | F |
At thought of some uncanceled bill | F |
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A king might not disdain to wear | G |
The title so appropriate | H |
To one who never sought to share | G |
Exalted station 'mong the great | I |
Nor cared if on the scroll of fame | J |
Were never traced his worthy name | J |
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As bound by honor's righteous law | K |
In strictest rectitude he wrought | L |
The man who calmly clearly saw | K |
His duty and who dallied not | M |
To garner life's necessities | N |
For those whose comfort heightened his | O |
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The parent bird its brood protects | P |
As fledglings in their downy nest | C |
Until a Power their flight directs | P |
From trial trips to distant quest | C |
Through trackless zones of ether blue | Q |
For bird companions strange and new | Q |
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But ere his babes from prattlers grew | Q |
Upon his knee or by his side | R |
To womanhood and manhood true | Q |
Too soon we thought the father died | R |
How could we know when Death was nigh | S |
Those little wings were taught to fly | S |
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Another name his boyhood knew | Q |
So seldom heard that lapse of years | T |
Had made it seem a thing untrue | Q |
Unmusical to friendly ears | T |
And thus his appellation odd | U |
His passport was where'er he trod | U |
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So long on every lip and tongue | V |
As if by universal whim | W |
To him had his cognomen clung | V |
And like a garment fitted him | W |
That angels even must have heard | X |
Of one like them in love preferred | X |
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And when he came to Heaven's door | E |
To Peter's self or acolyte | Y |
The holy warder looking o'er | Z |
'Tis 'Honest John ' he said aright | Y |
And his pilgrim spirit passed within | A2 |
Because his walk with God had been | A2 |
Hattie Howard
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