Invocation To The Social Muse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCD EFG HDI JKG LML LBB NBO BP Q GBR BBB STU VBB WXV SYU B ZG B| Se ora it is true the Greeks are dead | A |
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| It is true also that we here are Americans | B |
| That we use the machines that a sight of the god is unusual | C |
| That more people have more thoughts that there are | D |
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| Progress and science and tractors and revolutions and | E |
| Marx and the wars more antiseptic and murderous | F |
| And music in every home there is also Hoover | G |
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| Does the lady suggest we should write it out in The Word | H |
| Does Madame recall our responsibilities We are | D |
| Whores Fr ulein poets Fr ulein are persons of | I |
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| Known vocation following troops they must sleep with | J |
| Stragglers from either prince and of both views | K |
| The rules permit them to further the business of neither | G |
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| It is also strictly forbidden to mix in maneuvers | L |
| Those that infringe are inflated with praise on the plazas | M |
| Their bones are resultantly afterwards found under newspapers | L |
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| Preferring life with the sons to death with the fathers | L |
| We also doubt on the record whether the sons | B |
| Will still be shouting around with the same huzzas | B |
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| For we hope Lady to live to lie with the youngest | N |
| There are only a handful of things a man likes | B |
| Generation to generation hungry or | O |
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| Well fed the earth s one life s | B |
| One Mister Morgan is not one | P |
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| There is nothing worse for our trade than to be in style | Q |
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| He that goes naked goes further at last than another | G |
| Wrap the bard in a flag or a school and they ll jimmy his | B |
| Door down and be thick in his bed for a month | R |
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| Who recalls the address now of the Imagists | B |
| But the naked man has always his own nakedness | B |
| People remember forever his live limbs | B |
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| They may drive him out of the camps but one will take him | S |
| They may stop his tongue on his teeth with a rope s argument | T |
| He will lie in a house and be warm when they are shaking | U |
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| Besides Tovarishch how to embrace an army | V |
| How to take to one s chamber a million souls | B |
| How to conceive in the name of a column of marchers | B |
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| The things of the poet are done to a man alone | W |
| As the things of love are done or of death when he hears the | X |
| Step withdraw on the stair and the clock tick only | V |
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| Neither his class nor his kind nor his trade may come near him | S |
| There where he lies on his left arm and will die | Y |
| Nor his class nor his kind nor his trade when the blood is jeering | U |
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| And his knee s in the soft of the bed where his love lies | B |
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| I remind you Barinya the life of the poet is hard | Z |
| A hardy life with a boot as quick as a fiver | G |
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| Is it just to demand of us also to bear arms | B |
Archibald Macleish
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