The Poet Priest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCDDEFEGEGEHIHIJ JKGFLMNLOPOPEEQRRR| Not as of one whom multitudes admire | A |
| I believe they call him great | B |
| They throng to hear him with a strange desire | C |
| They silent come and wait | B |
| And wonder when he opens wide the gate | B |
| Of some strange inner temple where the fire | C |
| Is lit on many altars of many dreams | D |
| They wait to catch the gleams | D |
| And then they say | E |
| In praiseful words 'Tis beautiful and grand | F |
| And so his way | E |
| Is strewn with many flowers sweet and fair | G |
| And people say | E |
| How happy he must be to win and wear | G |
| Praise ev'ry day | E |
| And all the while he stands far out the crowd | H |
| Strangely alone | I |
| Is it a Stole he wears or mayhap a shroud | H |
| No matter which his spirit maketh moan | I |
| And all the while a lonely lonesome sense | J |
| Creeps thro' his days all fame's incense | J |
| Hath not the fragrance of his altar and | K |
| He seemeth rather to kneel in lowly prayer | G |
| Than lift his head aloft amid the Grand | F |
| If all the world would kneel down at his feet | L |
| And give acclaim | M |
| He fain would say Oh No No No | N |
| The breath of fame is sweet but far more sweet | L |
| Is the breath of Him who lives within my heart | O |
| God's breath which e'en despite of me will creep | P |
| Along the words of merely human art | O |
| It cometh from some far off hidden Deep | P |
| Far off and from so far away | E |
| It filleth night and day | E |
| Not as of one who ever ever cares | Q |
| For earthly praises not as of such think thou of me | R |
| And in the nights and days I'll meet with thee | R |
| In Prayers and thou shalt meet with me | R |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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