To Certain Poets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DD EF GG HH II JJ KK LL MM NN| Now is the rhymer's honest trade | A |
| A thing for scornful laughter made | A |
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| The merchant's sneer the clerk's disdain | B |
| These are the burden of our pain | B |
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| Because of you did this befall | C |
| You brought this shame upon us all | C |
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| You little poets mincing there | D |
| With women's hearts and women's hair | D |
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| How sick Dan Chaucer's ghost must be | E |
| To hear you lisp of Poesie | F |
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| A heavy handed blow I think | G |
| Would make your veins drip scented ink | G |
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| You strut and smirk your little while | H |
| So mildly delicately vile | H |
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| Your tiny voices mock God's wrath | I |
| You snails that crawl along His path | I |
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| Why what has God or man to do | J |
| With wet amorphous things like you | J |
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| This thing alone you have achieved | K |
| Because of you it is believed | K |
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| That all who earn their bread by rhyme | L |
| Are like yourselves exuding slime | L |
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| Oh cease to write for very shame | M |
| Ere all men spit upon our name | M |
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| Take up your needles drop your pen | N |
| And leave the poet's craft to men | N |
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)
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