Beethoven In Central Park Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDCCDDC EFGEFHAfter a glimpse of a certain monument in New York during the | A |
Victory Celebration | B |
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The thousand windowed towers were all alight | C |
Throngs of all nations filled that glittering way | D |
And rich with dreams of the approaching day | D |
Flags of all nations trampled down the night | C |
No clouds at sunset die in airs as bright | C |
No clouds at dawn awake in winds as gay | D |
For Freedom rose in that august array | D |
Crowned with the stars and weaponed for the right | C |
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Then in a place of whispering leaves and gloom | E |
I saw too dark too dumb for bronze or stone | F |
One tragic head that bowed against the sky | G |
O in a hush too deep for any tomb | E |
I saw Beethoven dreadfully alone | F |
With his own grief and his own majesty | H |
Alfred Noyes
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