To David, About His Education Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS| The world is full of mostly invisible things | A |
| And there is no way but putting the mind s eye | B |
| Or its nose in a book to find them out | C |
| Things like the square root of Everest | D |
| Or how many times Byron goes into Texas | E |
| Or whether the law of the excluded middle | F |
| Applies west of the Rockies For these | G |
| And the like reasons you have to go to school | H |
| And study books and listen to what you are told | I |
| And sometimes try to remember Though I don t know | J |
| What you will do with the mean annual rainfall | K |
| On Plato s Republic or the calorie content | L |
| Of the Diet of Worms such things are said to be | M |
| Good for you and you will have to learn them | N |
| In order to become one of the grown ups | O |
| Who sees invisible things neither steadily nor whole | P |
| But keeps gravely the grand confusion of the world | Q |
| Under his hat which is where it belongs | R |
| And teaches small children to do this in their turn | S |
Howard Nemerov
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