The Criticism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JBKB LMJM NMOM PQRQ STUT| The great man came to the country place | A |
| To preach to farmers sturdy | B |
| He said I'm in my happiest vein | C |
| I'll be eloquent and wordy | B |
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| Not often a great man like myself | D |
| Comes here to do the teaching | E |
| A big event in these quiet lives | F |
| They'll not forget my preaching | E |
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| The great man found him a text at length | G |
| In Ezekiel's ponderous pages | H |
| From point to point of his sermon long | I |
| He travelled at easy stages | H |
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| He soared up high in the realms of thought | J |
| Was rich in allegory | B |
| I have said he as he sat him down | K |
| Covered myself with glory | B |
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| These simple rustics are overcome | L |
| With my rhetoric and power | M |
| They're used to a sprinkling of thought | J |
| And I've given them a shower | M |
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| The great man got a terrible shock | N |
| As the long service over | M |
| He walked with a farmer grave and staid | O |
| Home through the fields of clover | M |
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| Your people ah were they much impressed | P |
| With my sermon he queried | Q |
| Preaching with earnestness power and force | R |
| Has left me sadly wearied | Q |
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| A worse would a done us country folks | S |
| The farmer's tone a terse one | T |
| That is reflectively if you | U |
| Happened to have a worse one | T |
Jean Blewett
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