Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ JKJK LMLM KNKN IOIO PQPQ CKCK RSRS TUTU| Poets are strange not always understood | A |
| By many is their gift | B |
| Which is for evil or for mighty good | A |
| To lower or to lift | B |
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| Upon their spirits there hath come a breath | C |
| Who reads their verse | D |
| Will rise to higher life or taste of death | C |
| In blessing or in curse | D |
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| The Poet is great Nature's own high priest | E |
| Ordained from very birth | F |
| To keep for hearts an everlasting feast | E |
| To bless or curse the earth | F |
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| They cannot help but sing they know not why | G |
| Their thoughts rush into song | H |
| And float above the world beneath the sky | G |
| For right or for the wrong | H |
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| They are like angels but some angels fell | I |
| While some did keep their place | J |
| Their poems are the gates of heav'n or hell | I |
| And God's or Satan's face | J |
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| Looks thro' their ev'ry word into your face | J |
| In blessing or in blight | K |
| And leaves upon your soul a grace or trace | J |
| Of sunlight or of night | K |
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| They move along life's uttermost extremes | L |
| Unlike all other men | M |
| And in their spirit's depths sleep strangest dreams | L |
| Like shadows in a glen | M |
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| They all are dreamers in the day and night | K |
| Ever across their souls | N |
| The wondrous mystery of the dark or bright | K |
| In mystic rhythm rolls | N |
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| They live within themselves they may not tell | I |
| What lieth deepest there | O |
| Within their breast a heaven or a hell | I |
| Joy or tormenting care | O |
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| They are the loneliest men that walk men's ways | P |
| No matter what they seem | Q |
| The stars and sunlight of their nights and days | P |
| Move over them in dream | Q |
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| They breathe it forth their very spirit's breath | C |
| To bless the world or blight | K |
| To bring to men a higher life or death | C |
| To give them light or night | K |
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| The words of some command the world's acclaim | R |
| And never pass away | S |
| While others' words receive no palm from fame | R |
| And live but for a day | S |
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| But live or die their words leave their impress | T |
| Fore'er or for an hour | U |
| And mark men's souls some more and some the less | T |
| With good's or evil's power | U |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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