A Poet's Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAAB CDCCCD BEBBBE FGFFFG HIHHHI JJKKAA| Poet my master come tell me true | A |
| And how are your verses made | B |
| Ah that is the easiest thing to do | A |
| You take a cloud of a silvern hue | A |
| A tender smile or a sprig of rue | A |
| With plenty of light and shade | B |
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| And weave them round in syllables rare | C |
| With a grace and skill divine | D |
| With the earnest words of a pleading prayer | C |
| With a cadence caught from a dulcet air | C |
| A tale of love and a lock of hair | C |
| Or a bit of a trailing vine | D |
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| Or delving deep in a mine unwrought | B |
| You find in the teeming earth | E |
| The golden vein of a noble thought | B |
| The soul of a statesman still unbought | B |
| Or a patriot's cry with anguish fraught | B |
| For the land that gave him birth | E |
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| A brilliant youth who has lost his way | F |
| On the winding road of life | G |
| A sculptor's dream of the plastic clay | F |
| A painter's soul in a sunset ray | F |
| The sweetest thing a woman can say | F |
| Or a struggling nation's strife | G |
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| A boy's ambition a maiden's star | H |
| Unrisen but yet to be | I |
| A glimmering light that shines afar | H |
| For a sinking ship on a moaning bar | H |
| An empty sleeve a veteran's scar | H |
| Or a land where men are free | I |
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| And if the poet's hand be strong | J |
| To weave the web of a deathless song | J |
| And if a master guide the pen | K |
| To words that reach the hearts of men | K |
| And if the ear and the touch be true | A |
| It's the easiest thing in the world to do | A |
Arthur Macy
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