Why Do You Strive For Greatness, Fool? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFGH B

Why do you strive for greatness foolA
Go pluck a bough and wear itB
It is as sufficingC
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My Lord there are certain barbariansD
Who tilt their nosesE
As if the stars were flowersF
And Thy servant is lost among their shoe bucklesG
Fain would I have mine eyes even with their eyesH
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Fool go pluck a bough and wear itB

Stephen Crane



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