The Teacher Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFG HIHI JGKG LMLM NHNH OPOP HQHQ RSRS TGTG NRNR IHIN| Say sadden'd mortal thou who goest along | A |
| With look so weary and with step so slow | B |
| Why trillest thou no blithe and cheerful song | A |
| Why whistlest thou that tune so sad and low | B |
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| What trouble weighs thee down what sorrow sore | C |
| Lies heavy on thy yet so youthful breast | D |
| Sure fortune yet holds wide for thee her door | C |
| Sure fame and joy yet wait thy earnest quest | D |
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| Why know'st thou not the birds for thee do sing | E |
| The flow'rs for thee with perfum'd beauty grow | B |
| With melody for thee the wild birds sing | E |
| With rippling laugh the cheerful streamlets flow | B |
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| Then why my friend once more I ask of thee | F |
| Why shows thy face so much unrest and pain | G |
| What painful phase of life dost thou still see | F |
| What sad sad woe doth in thy heart remain | G |
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| Bright flash'd the teacher's languid eye | H |
| Flushed his pale cheek with bright tho' fleeting flame | I |
| Leap'd forth his voice with energetic cry | H |
| And thus to me express'd his thoughts they came | I |
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| Inquirer cease thy words stir up the fire | J |
| That erst did fill my live and vig'rous brain | G |
| Thy words stir up the seeds of healthy ire | K |
| That still with latent pow'r and force remain | G |
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| 'Tis strange thou think'st that darkly on my brow | L |
| The shadow of a careworn spirit stays | M |
| My youth with springless step doth make thee bow | L |
| Thy head in kindly wonder and amaze | M |
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| Thou would'st not look with such a puzzl'd air | N |
| Upon my weary pace and heavy eye | H |
| If thou didst know the cause of my despair | N |
| The stem substantial solid reason why | H |
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| Didst ever know my friend what I endure | O |
| In slavish plodding work from day to day | P |
| Which work should be in its own nature pure | O |
| And lifted high from gross and heavy clay | P |
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| Examinations cram and pressure high | H |
| Are daily kept before my anxious mind | Q |
| What tho' for higher aims I daily sigh | H |
| This is my work and this my daily grind | Q |
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| I work you say on minds and hearts and souls | R |
| Alas 'tis true but what can e'er atone | S |
| For dry mechanic thought and lifeless coals | R |
| Which light not up but turn the intellect to stone | S |
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| Work on ye faithful grinding and hair splitting band | T |
| Work on in slavish fear and penitential pain | G |
| But daily pray that thro' this young and prosp'rous land | T |
| A system higher purer freer yet shall reign | G |
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| Yours shall not be the blame the people must it bear | N |
| For while they look for quick results for hot bed flow'rs | R |
| Amongst them they the various ills must surely share | N |
| Of hasty fev'rish work compell'd by outside pow'rs | R |
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| Thus spoke the man and closed his lips became | I |
| The fire forsook his lately flashing eye | H |
| His nerves relax'd and o'er his brow the same | I |
| Dark cloud of bitter woe could I descry | N |
Thomas Frederick Young
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