On Retirement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAB CDCCE FGFFG HIHJI| A hermit's house beside a stream | A |
| With forests planted round | B |
| Whatever it to you may seem | A |
| More real happiness I deem | A |
| Than if I were a monarch crowned | B |
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| A cottage I could call my own | C |
| Remote from domes of care | D |
| A little garden walled with stone | C |
| The wall with ivy overgrown | C |
| A limpid fountain near | E |
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| Would more substantial joys afford | F |
| More real bliss impart | G |
| Than all the wealth that misers hoard | F |
| Than vanquished worlds or worlds restored | F |
| Mere cankers of the heart | G |
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| Vain foolish man how vast thy pride | H |
| How little can your wants supply | I |
| 'Tis surely wrong to grasp so wide | H |
| You act as if you only had | J |
| To triumph not to die | I |
Philip Freneau
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