Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGBBBB| Great wide beautiful wonderful World | A |
| With the wonderful water round you curled | A |
| And the wonderful grass upon your breast | B |
| World you are beautifully drest | B |
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| The wonderful air is over me | C |
| And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree | C |
| It walks on the water and whirls the mills | D |
| And talks to itself on the tops of the hills | D |
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| You friendly Earth how far do you go | E |
| With the wheat fields that nod and the rivers that flow | E |
| With cities and gardens and cliffs and isles | F |
| And people upon you for thousands of miles | F |
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| Ah you are so great and I am so small | G |
| I tremble to think of you World at all | G |
| And yet when I said my prayers to day | B |
| A whisper inside me seemed to say | B |
| quot You are more than the Earth though you are such a dot | B |
| You can love and think and the Earth cannot quot | B |
William Brighty Rands
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