Canopus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AAAA AEAE FAFA| When quacks with pills political would dope us | A |
| When politics absorbs the livelong day | B |
| I like to think about that star Canopus | A |
| So far so far away | B |
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| Greatest of visioned suns they say who list 'em | C |
| To weigh it science almost must despair | D |
| Its shell would hold our whole dinged solar system | C |
| Nor even know 'twas there | D |
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| When temporary chairmen utter speeches | A |
| And frenzied henchmen howl their battle hymns | A |
| My thoughts float out across the cosmic reaches | A |
| To where Canopus swims | A |
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| When men are calling names and making faces | A |
| And all the world's ajangle and ajar | E |
| I meditate on interstellar spaces | A |
| And smoke a mild seegar | E |
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| For after one has had about a week of | F |
| The argument of friends as well as foes | A |
| A star that has no parallax to speak of | F |
| Conduces to repose | A |
Bert Leston Taylor
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