The Village Schoolmaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFFFCCGHII FFCCFF| Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way | A |
| With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay | A |
| There in his noisy mansion skill'd to rule | B |
| The village master taught his little school | B |
| A man severe he was and stern to view | C |
| I knew him well and every truant knew | C |
| Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace | D |
| The days disasters in his morning face | D |
| Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee | E |
| At all his jokes for many a joke had he | E |
| Full well the busy whisper circling round | F |
| Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd | F |
| Yet he was kind or if severe in aught | F |
| The love he bore to learning was in fault | F |
| The village all declar'd how much he knew | C |
| 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too | C |
| Lands he could measure terms and tides presage | G |
| And e'en the story ran that he could gauge | H |
| In arguing too the parson own'd his skill | I |
| For e'en though vanquish'd he could argue still | I |
| While words of learned length and thund'ring sound | F |
| Amazed the gazing rustics rang'd around | F |
| And still they gaz'd and still the wonder grew | C |
| That one small head could carry all he knew | C |
| But past is all his fame The very spot | F |
| Where many a time he triumph'd is forgot | F |
Oliver Goldsmith
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