To The Teachers Of America Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDC DDEEFDDF DDDDGBBG| TEACHERS of teachers Yours the task | A |
| Noblest that noble minds can ask | A |
| High up Aonia's murmurous mount | B |
| To watch to guard the sacred fount | B |
| That feeds the streams below | C |
| To guide the hurrying flood that fills | D |
| A thousand silvery rippling rills | D |
| In ever widening flow | C |
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| Rich is the harvest from the fields | D |
| That bounteous Nature kindly yields | D |
| But fairer growths enrich the soil | E |
| Ploughed deep by thought's unwearied toil | E |
| In Learning's broad domain | F |
| And where the leaves the flowers the fruits | D |
| Without your watering at the roots | D |
| To fill each branching vein | F |
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| Welcome the Author's firmest friends | D |
| Your voice the surest Godspeed lends | D |
| Of you the growing mind demands | D |
| The patient care the guiding hands | D |
| Through all the mists of morn | G |
| And knowing well the future's need | B |
| Your prescient wisdom sows the seed | B |
| To flower in years unborn | G |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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