Prismatic Boston Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKEE HHLLMMNNOOPPQQPPRRPP QQQQSSTT QQUUPP VVQQPPQQPPFair city by the famed Batrachian Pool | A |
Wise in the teachings of the Concord School | A |
Home of the Eurus paradise of cranks | B |
Stronghold of thrift proud in your hundred banks | B |
Land of the mind cure and the abstruse book | C |
The Monday lecture and the shrinking Cook | C |
Where twin lensed maidens careless of their shoes | D |
In phrase Johnsonian oft express their views | D |
Where realistic pens invite the throng | E |
To mention spades lest shovels should be wrong | E |
Where gaping strangers read the thrilling ode | F |
To Pilgrim Trousers on the West End road | F |
Where strange sartorial questions as to pants | G |
Offend our sisters cousins and our aunts | G |
Where men expect by simple faith and prayer | H |
To lift a lid and find a dollar there | H |
Where labyrinthine lanes that sinuous creep | I |
Make Theseus sigh and Ariadne weep | I |
Where clubs gregarious take commercial risks | J |
'Mid fluctuations of alluring disks | J |
Where Beacon Hill is ever proud to show | K |
Her reeking veins of liquid indigo | K |
To thee fair land I dedicate my song | E |
And tell how simple artless minds go wrong | E |
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A Common Councilman with lordly air | H |
One day went strolling down through Copley Square | H |
Within his breast there beat a spotless heart | L |
His taste was pure his soul was steeped in art | L |
For he had worshiped oft at Cass's shrine | M |
Had daily knelt at Cogswell's fount divine | M |
And chaste surroundings of the City Hall | N |
Had taught him much and so he knew it all | N |
Proud in a sack coat and a high silk hat | O |
Content in knowing just where he was at | O |
He wandered on till gazing toward the skies | P |
A nameless horror met his modest eyes | P |
For where the artist's chisel had engrossed | Q |
An emblem fit on Boston's proudest boast | Q |
There stood aloft with graceful equipoise | P |
Two very small unexpurgated boys | P |
Filled with solicitude for city youth | R |
Whose morals suffer when they're told the truth | R |
Whose ethic standards high and higher rise | P |
When taught that God and nature are but lies | P |
In haste he to the council chamber hied | Q |
His startled fellow members called aside | Q |
His fearful secret whispering disclosed | Q |
Till all their separate joints were ankylosed | Q |
Appalling was the silence at his tale | S |
Democrats turned red Republicans turned pale | S |
What mugwumps turned 'tis difficult to think | T |
But probably they compromised on pink | T |
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When these stern moralists had their breaths regained | Q |
And told how deeply they were shocked and pained | Q |
They then resolved how wrong our children are | U |
Said Boys should be contented with a scar | U |
Rebuked Dame Nature for her deadly sins | P |
And damned trustees who foster Heavenly Twins | P |
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O Councilmen if it were left for you | V |
To say what art is false and what is true | V |
What strange anomalies would the world behold | Q |
Dolls would be angels dross would count for gold | Q |
Vice would be virtue virtues would be taints | P |
Gods would be devils Councilmen be saints | P |
And this sage law by your wise minds be built | Q |
No boy shall live if born without a kilt | Q |
Then you'd resolve to soothe all moral aches | P |
We're always right but God has made mistakes | P |
Arthur Macy
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