A Man Of Many Parts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABACDC AEAEF FG ABABHAI A| It was a man of many parts | A |
| Who in his coffer mind | B |
| Had stored the Classics and the Arts | A |
| And Sciences combined | B |
| The purest gems of poesy | A |
| Came flashing from his pen | C |
| The wholesome truths of History | D |
| He gave his fellow men | C |
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| He knew the stars from 'Dog' to Mars | A |
| And he could tell you too | E |
| Their distances as though the cars | A |
| Had often checked him through | E |
| And time 'twould take to reach the sun | F |
| Or by the 'Milky Way ' | - |
| Drop in upon the moon or run | F |
| The homeward trip or stay | G |
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| With Logic at his fingers' ends | A |
| Theology in mind | B |
| He often entertained his friends | A |
| Until they died resigned | B |
| And with inquiring mind intent | H |
| Upon Alchemic arts | A |
| A dynamite experiment | I |
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| A man of many parts | A |
James Whitcomb Riley
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