What Man May Learn, What Man May Do Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BBCCDD EEFFBB GGHHII| A | |
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| WHAT man may learn what man may do | B |
| Of right or wrong of false or true | B |
| While skipper like his course he steers | C |
| Through nine and twenty mingled years | C |
| Half misconceived and half forgot | D |
| So much I know and practise not | D |
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| Old are the words of wisdom old | E |
| The counsels of the wise and bold | E |
| To close the ears to check the tongue | F |
| To keep the pining spirit young | F |
| To act the right to say the true | B |
| And to be kind whate'er you do | B |
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| Thus we across the modern stage | G |
| Follow the wise of every age | G |
| And as oaks grow and rivers run | H |
| Unchanged in the unchanging sun | H |
| So the eternal march of man | I |
| Goes forth on an eternal plan | I |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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