The Useful Weed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB AACC DDEE FFGG HHII AAJJ| Do not despise the humble weed | A |
| For the Lord He first sowed the seed | A |
| Perhaps it bears most precious fruit | B |
| And useful leaves and potent root | B |
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| Though it seems now a useless weed | A |
| Countless millions it yet may feed | A |
| Or future ages it may prize | C |
| Finding in it beauteous dyes | C |
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| Or a valued healing balm | D |
| Will make the heated pulse beat calm | D |
| And the future men of science | E |
| May place on it strong reliance | E |
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| And it may play important part | F |
| In advancing skill and art | F |
| And no person now doth know | G |
| How useful are the weeds that grow | G |
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| Weeds we now look on with loathing | H |
| They may yet be used for clothing | H |
| Producing silken glossy coat | I |
| Or paper fine for the bank note | I |
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| But you at present must take heed | A |
| And do not grow the cumbrous weed | A |
| Either in garden or in field | J |
| Where plants with profit now do yield | J |
James Mcintyre
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