Innocence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHEHE IJIKALAL| The height of wisdom seems to me | A |
| That of a child | B |
| So let my ageing vision be | A |
| Serene and mild | B |
| The depth of folly I aver | C |
| Is to fish deep | D |
| In that dark pool of science where | E |
| Truth demons sleep | D |
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| Let me not be a bearded sage | F |
| Seeing too clear | G |
| In issues of the atom age | F |
| Man doom I fear | G |
| So long as living's outward show | H |
| To me is fair | E |
| What lies behind I do not know | H |
| And do not care | E |
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| Of woeful fears of future ill | I |
| That earth folk haunt | J |
| Let me as radiant meadow rill | I |
| Be ignorant | K |
| Aye though a sorry dunce I be | A |
| In learning's school | L |
| Lord marvellously make of me | A |
| Your Happy Fool | L |
Robert Service
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