La Vie De Boheme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDDBCBAEFGHHBBD HHDHHHHHH IHHIJDJJHD| Alone I whet my soul against the keen | A |
| Unwrinkled sky with its long stretching blue | B |
| I polish it with sunlight and pale dew | B |
| And damascene it with young blowing leaves | C |
| Into the handle of my life I set | D |
| Sprigs of mignonette | D |
| And periwinkle | B |
| Twisted into sheaves | C |
| The colors laugh and twinkle | B |
| Twined bands of roadways liquid in the sheen | A |
| Of street lamps and the ruby shine of cabs | E |
| Glisten for my delight all down its length | F |
| And there are sudden sparks | G |
| Of morning ripplings over tree fluttered pools | H |
| My soul is fretted full of gleams and darks | H |
| Pulsing and still | B |
| Smooth edged untarnished girded in my soul | B |
| I walk the world | D |
| - | |
| But in its narrow alleys | H |
| The low hung dust thick valleys | H |
| Where the mob shuffles its empty tread | D |
| My soul is blunted against dullard wits | H |
| Smeared with sick juices | H |
| Nicked impotent for other than low uses | H |
| Its arabesques and sparkling subtleties | H |
| Crusted to grey and all its changing surfaces | H |
| Spread with unpalpitant monotonies | H |
| - | |
| I re create myself upon the polished sky | I |
| A honing strop above converging roofs | H |
| The patterns show again like buried proofs | H |
| Of old lost empires bursting on the eye | I |
| In hieroglyphed and graven splendor | J |
| The whirling winds brush past my head | D |
| And prodigal once more a reckless spender | J |
| Of disregarded beauty a defender | J |
| Of undesired faiths | H |
| walk the world | D |
Amy Lowell
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