The Country Schoolmaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBACDDEEFFGGHHGGGGII JJEE KK A LLMMGGGGAAN NKKGG| I | A |
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| A MASTER of a country school | B |
| Jump'd up one day from off his stool | B |
| Inspired with firm resolve to try | A |
| To gain the best society | C |
| So to the nearest baths he walk'd | D |
| And into the saloon he stalk'd | D |
| He felt quite startled at the door | E |
| Ne'er having seen the like before | E |
| To the first stranger made he now | F |
| A very low and graceful bow | F |
| But quite forgot to bear in mind | G |
| That people also stood behind | G |
| His left hand neighbor's paunch he struck | H |
| A grievous blow by great ill luck | H |
| Pardon for this he first entreated | G |
| And then in haste his bow repeated | G |
| His right hand neighbor next he hit | G |
| And begg'd him too to pardon it | G |
| But on his granting his petition | I |
| Another was in like condition | I |
| These compliments he paid to all | J |
| Behind before across the hall | J |
| At length one who could stand no more | E |
| Show'd him impatiently the door | E |
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| May many pond'ring on their crimes | K |
| A moral draw from this betimes | K |
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| II | A |
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| As he proceeded on his way | L |
| He thought I was too weak to day | L |
| To bow I'll ne'er again be seen | M |
| For goats will swallow what is green | M |
| Across the fields he now must speed | G |
| Not over stumps and stones indeed | G |
| But over meads and cornfields sweet | G |
| Trampling down all with clumsy feet | G |
| A farmer met him by and by | A |
| And didn't ask him how or why | A |
| But with his fist saluted him | N |
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| I feel new life in every limb | N |
| Our traveller cried in ecstasy | K |
| Who art thou who thus gladden'st me | K |
| May Heaven such blessings ever send | G |
| Ne'er may I want a jovial friend | G |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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