What Do Poets Want With Gold? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CCDDEEFFEEAAGGHHIIJJ KKK LMNM OOPPQQOORRSSTTT| What do poets want with gold | A |
| Cringing slaves and cushioned ease | B |
| Are not crusts and garments old | A |
| Better for their souls than these | B |
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| Gold is but the juggling rod | C |
| Of a false usurping god | C |
| Graven long ago in hell | D |
| With a sombre stony spell | D |
| Working in the world forever | E |
| Hate is not so strong to sever | E |
| Beating human heart from heart | F |
| Soul from soul we shrink and part | F |
| And no longer hail each other | E |
| With the ancient name of brother | E |
| Give the simple poet gold | A |
| And his song will die of cold | A |
| He must walk with men that reel | G |
| On the rugged path and feel | G |
| Every sacred soul that is | H |
| Beating very near to his | H |
| Simple human careless free | I |
| As God made him he must be | I |
| For the sweetest song of bird | J |
| Is the hidden tenor heard | J |
| In the dusk an even flush | K |
| From the forest's inner hush | K |
| Of the simple hermit thrush | K |
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| What do poets want with love | L |
| Flowers that shiver out of hand | M |
| And the fervid fruits that prove | N |
| Only bitter broken sand | M |
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| Poets speak of passion best | O |
| When their dreams are undistressed | O |
| And the sweetest songs are sung | P |
| E'er the inner heart is stung | P |
| Let them dream 'tis better so | Q |
| Ever dream but never know | Q |
| If the their spirits once have drained | O |
| All that goblet crimson stained | O |
| Finding what they dreamed divine | R |
| Only earthly sluggish wine | R |
| Sooner will the warm lips pale | S |
| And the flawless voices fail | S |
| Sooner come the drooping wing | T |
| And the afterdays that bring | T |
| No such songs as did the spring | T |
Archibald Lampman
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