Come, Poet, Come! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGGDDDAA AAAEEHHII AJJKKLLMMNOOIIPPPCome 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 |
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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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