Rhyme Of Rhymes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ADAD EAEA DDDD FGFG HIHI JKJK| Wild on the mountain peak the wind | A |
| Repeats its old refrain | B |
| Like ghosts of mortals who have sinned | C |
| And fain would sin again | D |
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| For wind I do not rhyme to mind | A |
| Like many mortal men | D |
| Again when one reflects 'twere kind | A |
| To rhyme as if agen | D |
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| I never met a single soul | E |
| Who SPOKE of wind as wined | A |
| And yet we use it on the whole | E |
| To rhyme to find and blind | A |
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| We SAY Now don't do that AGEN | D |
| When people give us pain | D |
| In poetry nine times in ten | D |
| It rhymes to Spain or Dane | D |
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| Oh which are wrong or which are right | F |
| Oh which are right or wrong | G |
| The sounds in prose familiar quite | F |
| Or those we meet in song | G |
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| To hold that love can rhyme to prove | H |
| Requires some force of will | I |
| Yet in the ancient lyric groove | H |
| We meet them rhyming still | I |
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| This was our learned fathers' wont | J |
| In prehistoric times | K |
| We follow it or if we don't | J |
| We oft run short of rhymes | K |
Andrew Lang
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