A Keynote [extract] Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI GKGK LMLM NONO| Heard from the speaking stones that strew | A |
| The hillside of Success | B |
| From spheres whose harmonies anew | A |
| Can those who listen bless | B |
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| From breaths of every sacred isle | C |
| By which my Muses move | D |
| Released from battle's claim a while | C |
| In Brendan voyage of Love | E |
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| From shambles of the Dispossessed | F |
| From Croesus in his sty | G |
| From old Democracy obsessed | F |
| By fiends about to die | G |
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| Read in the scars of veterans | H |
| In Want's resultless fray | I |
| In noon day Science' futile plans | J |
| To yoke the soul to clay | I |
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| In watchings of the social sky | G |
| And soundings of its deep | K |
| And where Oppression's vultures fly | G |
| And sad Redeemers weep | K |
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| 'Neath living palimpsests of Pain | L |
| On shards of deathless song | M |
| hi God's magnificent disdain | L |
| Of Might enthroned on Wrong | M |
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| Read where unheeded outcasts groan | N |
| And waits Rebellion's form | O |
| These verses voice an undertone | N |
| The prelude to a storm | O |
Bernard O'dowd
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