Ignorance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIHJKAK LMNMOPQH RRSRRERE| Oh happy he who cannot see | A |
| With scientific eyes | B |
| Who does not know how flowers grow | C |
| And is not planet wise | B |
| Content to find with simple mind | D |
| Joys as they are | E |
| To whom a rose is just a rose | F |
| A star a star | E |
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| It is not good I deem to brood | G |
| On things beyond our ken | H |
| A rustic I would live and die | I |
| Aloof from learned men | H |
| And laugh and sing with zest of Spring | J |
| In life's exultant scene | K |
| For vain my be philosophy | A |
| And what does meaning mean | K |
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| I'm talking rot I'm really not | L |
| As dumb as I pretend | M |
| But happiness I dimly guess | N |
| Is what counts in the end | M |
| To educate is to dilate | O |
| The nerves of pain | P |
| So let us give up books and live | Q |
| Like hinds again | H |
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| The best of wisdom surely is | R |
| To be not overwise | R |
| For may not thought be evil fraught | S |
| And truth less kind than lies | R |
| So let me praise the golden days | R |
| I played a gay guitar | E |
| And deemed a rose was just a rose | R |
| A star a star | E |
Robert William Service
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