Come, Poet, Come! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGGDDDAA AAAEEHHII AJJKKLLMMNOOIIPPP| Come Poet come | A |
| A thousand labourers ply their task | B |
| And what it tends to scarcely ask | B |
| And trembling thinkers on the brink | C |
| Shiver and know not how to think | C |
| To tell the purport of their pain | D |
| And what our silly joys contain | D |
| In lasting lineaments pourtray | E |
| The substance of the shadowy day | F |
| Our real and inner deeds rehearse | G |
| And make our meaning clear in verse | G |
| Come Poet come for but in vain | D |
| We do the work or feel the pain | D |
| And gather up the seeming gain | D |
| Unless before the end thou come | A |
| To take ere they are lost their sum | A |
| - | |
| Come Poet come | A |
| To give an utterance to the dumb | A |
| And make vain babblers silent come | A |
| A thousand dupes point here and there | E |
| Bewildered by the show and glare | E |
| And wise men half have learned to doubt | H |
| Whether we are not best without | H |
| Come Poet both but wait to see | I |
| Their error proved to them in thee | I |
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| Come Poet come | A |
| In vain I seem to call And yet | J |
| Think not the living times forget | J |
| Ages of heroes fought and fell | K |
| That Homer in the end might tell | K |
| O'er grovelling generations past | L |
| Upstood the Doric fane at last | L |
| And countless hearts on countless years | M |
| Had wasted thoughts and hopes and fears | M |
| Rude laughter and unmeaning tears | N |
| Ere England Shakespeare saw or Rome | O |
| The pure perfection of her dome | O |
| Others I doubt not if not we | I |
| The issue of our toils shall see | I |
| Young children gather as their own | P |
| The harvest that the dead had sown | P |
| The dead forgotten and unknown | P |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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