Come, Poet, Come! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDDEFGGDDDAA AAAEEHHII AJJKKLLMMNOOIIPPP

Come Poet comeA
A thousand labourers ply their taskB
And what it tends to scarcely askB
And trembling thinkers on the brinkC
Shiver and know not how to thinkC
To tell the purport of their painD
And what our silly joys containD
In lasting lineaments pourtrayE
The substance of the shadowy dayF
Our real and inner deeds rehearseG
And make our meaning clear in verseG
Come Poet come for but in vainD
We do the work or feel the painD
And gather up the seeming gainD
Unless before the end thou comeA
To take ere they are lost their sumA
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Come Poet comeA
To give an utterance to the dumbA
And make vain babblers silent comeA
A thousand dupes point here and thereE
Bewildered by the show and glareE
And wise men half have learned to doubtH
Whether we are not best withoutH
Come Poet both but wait to seeI
Their error proved to them in theeI
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Come Poet comeA
In vain I seem to call And yetJ
Think not the living times forgetJ
Ages of heroes fought and fellK
That Homer in the end might tellK
O'er grovelling generations pastL
Upstood the Doric fane at lastL
And countless hearts on countless yearsM
Had wasted thoughts and hopes and fearsM
Rude laughter and unmeaning tearsN
Ere England Shakespeare saw or RomeO
The pure perfection of her domeO
Others I doubt not if not weI
The issue of our toils shall seeI
Young children gather as their ownP
The harvest that the dead had sownP
The dead forgotten and unknownP

Arthur Hugh Clough



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