Wealth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE FGFG| For Aline | A |
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| From what old ballad or from what rich frame | B |
| Did you descend to glorify the earth | C |
| Was it from Chaucer's singing book you came | B |
| Or did Watteau's small brushes give you birth | C |
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| Nothing so exquisite as that slight hand | D |
| Could Raphael or Leonardo trace | E |
| Nor could the poets know in Fairyland | D |
| The changing wonder of your lyric face | E |
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| I would possess a host of lovely things | F |
| But I am poor and such joys may not be | G |
| So God who lifts the poor and humbles kings | F |
| Sent loveliness itself to dwell with me | G |
Alfred Joyce Kilmer (joyce)
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