My Masterpiece Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIHI JEJEKLKL MNMNECEN EEEEOEOE PEPENNNN EEEEQNQN ACACRSRT NCNCAMAM| I wrote the truest tend'rest song | A |
| The world had ever heard | B |
| And clear melodious and strong | A |
| And sweet was every word | B |
| The flowing numbers came to me | C |
| Unbidden from the heart | D |
| So pure the strain that poesy | E |
| Seemed something more than art | D |
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| No doubtful cadence marred a line | F |
| So tunefully it flowed | G |
| And through the measure all divine | F |
| The fire of genius glowed | G |
| So deftly were the verses wrought | H |
| So fair the legend told | I |
| That every word revealed a thought | H |
| And every thought was gold | I |
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| Mine was the charm the power the skill | J |
| The wisdom of the years | E |
| 'Twas mine to move the world at will | J |
| To laughter or to tears | E |
| For subtile pleasantry was there | K |
| And brilliant flash of wit | L |
| Now pleading eyes were raised in prayer | K |
| And now with smiles were lit | L |
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| I sang of hours when youth was king | M |
| And of one happy spot | N |
| Where life and love were everything | M |
| And time was half forgot | N |
| Of gracious days in woodland ways | E |
| When every flower and tree | C |
| Seemed echoing the sweetest phrase | E |
| From lips in Arcadie | N |
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| Of sagas old and Norseman bands | E |
| That sailed o'er northern seas | E |
| Enchanting tales of fairy lands | E |
| And strange philosophies | E |
| I sang of Egypt's fairest queen | O |
| With passion's fatal curse | E |
| Of that pale sad faced Florentine | O |
| As deathless as his verse | E |
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| Of time of the Arcadian Pan | P |
| When dryads thronged the trees | E |
| When Atalanta swiftly ran | P |
| With fleet Hippomenes | E |
| Brave stories too did I relate | N |
| Of battle flags unfurled | N |
| Of glorious days when Greece was great | N |
| When Rome was all the world | N |
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| Of noble deeds for noble creeds | E |
| Of woman's sacrifice | E |
| The mother's stricken heart that bleeds | E |
| For souls in Paradise | E |
| Anon I told a tale of shame | Q |
| And while in tears I slept | N |
| Behold a white robed angel came | Q |
| And read the words and wept | N |
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| And so I wrote my perfect song | A |
| In such a wondrous key | C |
| I heard the plaudits of the throng | A |
| And fame awaited me | C |
| Alas the sullen morning broke | R |
| And came the tempest's roar | S |
| 'Mid discord trembling I awoke | R |
| And lo my dream was o'er | T |
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| Yet often in the quiet night | N |
| My song returns to me | C |
| I seize the pen and fain would write | N |
| My long lost melody | C |
| But dreaming o'er the words ere long | A |
| Comes vague remembering | M |
| And fades away the sweetest song | A |
| That man can ever sing | M |
Arthur Macy
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