Contemporaries Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBC DEDEAEA FGFGHGH IJKJLJL MNMNONO PQPQRQR STSSUSUA barbered woman's man yes so | A |
He seemed to me a twelvemonth since | B |
And so he may be let it go | A |
Admit his flaws we need not wince | B |
To find our noblest not all great | C |
What of it He is still the prince | B |
And we the pages of his state | C |
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The world applauds his words his fame | D |
Is noised wherever knowledge be | E |
Even the trader hears his name | D |
As one far inland hears the sea | E |
The lady quotes him to the beau | A |
Across a cup of Russian tea | E |
They know him and they do not know | A |
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I know him In the nascent years | F |
Men's eyes shall see him as one crowned | G |
His voice shall gather in their ears | F |
With each new age prophetic sound | G |
And you and I and all the rest | H |
Whose brows to day are laurel bound | G |
Shall be but plumes upon his crest | H |
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A year ago this man was poor | I |
This Alfred whom the nations praise | J |
He stood a beggar at my door | K |
For one mere word to help him raise | J |
From fainting limbs and shoulders bent | L |
The burden of the weary days | J |
And I withheld it and he went | L |
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I knew him then as I know now | M |
Our largest heart our loftiest mind | N |
Yet for the curls upon his brow | M |
And for his lisp I could not find | N |
The helping word the cheering touch | O |
Ah to be just as well as kind | N |
It costs so little and so much | O |
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It seemed unmanly in my sight | P |
That he whose spirit was so strong | Q |
To lead the blind world to the light | P |
Should look so like the mincing throng | Q |
Who advertise the tailor's art | R |
It angered me I did him wrong | Q |
I grudged my groat and shut my heart | R |
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I might have been the prophet's friend | S |
Helped him who is to help the world | T |
Now when the striving is at end | S |
The reek stained battle banners furled | S |
And the age hears its muster call | U |
Then I because his hair was curled | S |
I shall have lost my chance that's all | U |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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