Jongleurs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC CDCBDBBBBBCEECB FFCCBBCCCCCCCCCCCCCC GGHIHI CECEJKJCKDCEFEBDBFBB BBLL MFFMNBOBBMBMMBBGBGBD BDGGCCCBBBBPPBBBBGGG BBQBQ RBBRFFCCCLCLKBKBEFEF| What is the stir in the street | A |
| Hurry of feet | A |
| And after | B |
| A sound as of pipes and of tabers | C |
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| Men of the conflicts and labors | C |
| Struggling and shifting and shoving | D |
| Pushing and pounding your neighbors | C |
| Fighting for leeway for laughter | B |
| Toiling for leisure for loving | D |
| Hark through the window and up to the rafter | B |
| Madder and merrier | B |
| Deeper and verier | B |
| Sweeter contrarier | B |
| Dafter and dafter | B |
| A song arises | C |
| A thrill an intrusion | E |
| A reel an illusion | E |
| A rapture a crisis | C |
| Of bells in the air | B |
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| Ay up from your work and look out of the window | F |
| Who are the newcomers Arab or Hindoo | F |
| Persians or Japs or the children of Isis | C |
| Guesses surmises | C |
| Forth with you fare | B |
| Down in the street to draw nearer and stare | B |
| Come from your palaces come from your hovels | C |
| Lay down your ledgers your picks and your shovels | C |
| Your trowels and bricks | C |
| Hammers and nails | C |
| Scythes and flails | C |
| Bargains and sales | C |
| And the trader's tricks | C |
| Deals overreachings | C |
| Worries and griefs | C |
| Teachings and preachings | C |
| Boluses briefs | C |
| Writs and attachments | C |
| Quarterings hatchments | C |
| Clans and cognomens | C |
| Comments and scholia | G |
| World's melancholia | G |
| Cast them aside and good riddance to rubbish | H |
| Here at the street corner hearken a strain | I |
| Rough and off hand and a bit rub a dub ish | H |
| Gives us a taste of the life we'd attain | I |
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| Who are they what are they whence have they come to us | C |
| Where will they go when their singing is done | E |
| What is the garb they wear tattered and sumptuous | C |
| Faded with days and superb in the sun | E |
| What are they singing of | J |
| Hush | K |
| There's a ringing of | J |
| Delicate chimes | C |
| And the blush | K |
| Of a veiled bride morning | D |
| Beats in the rhymes | C |
| Listen | E |
| Out of the merriment | F |
| Clear as the glisten | E |
| Of dew on the brier | B |
| A silver warning | D |
| Sudden a dare | B |
| Lyric experiment | F |
| Up like a lark in the air | B |
| Higher and higher and higher | B |
| The song shoots out of our blunder | B |
| Of thought to the blue sky of wonder | B |
| And broken strains only fall down | L |
| Like pearls on the roofs of the town | L |
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| Somebody says they have come from the moon | M |
| Seen with their eyes Eldorado | F |
| Sat in the Bo tree's shadow | F |
| Wandered at noon | M |
| In the valleys of Van | N |
| Tented in Lebanon tarried in Ophir | B |
| Last year in Tartary piped for the Khan | O |
| Now it's the song of a lover | B |
| Now it's the lilt of a loafer | B |
| Under the trees in a midsummer noon | M |
| Dreaming the haze into isles to discover | B |
| Beating the silences into a croon | M |
| Soon | M |
| Up from the marshes a fall of the plover | B |
| Out from the cover | B |
| A flurry of quail | G |
| Down from the height where the slow hawks hover | B |
| The thin far ghost of a hail | G |
| And near and near | B |
| Throbbing and tingling | D |
| With a human cheer | B |
| In the earth song mingling | D |
| Mirth and carousal | G |
| Wooing espousal | G |
| Clinking of glasses | C |
| And laughter of lasses | C |
| And the wind in the garden stoops down as it passes | C |
| To play with the hair | B |
| Of the loveliest there | B |
| And the wander lust catches the will in its snare | B |
| Hill wind and spray lure | B |
| Call of the heath | P |
| Dare in the teeth | P |
| Of the balk and the failure | B |
| The clasp and the linger | B |
| Of loosening finger | B |
| Loth to dissever | B |
| Thrill of the comrade heart to its fellow | G |
| Through droughts that sicken and blasts that bellow | G |
| From purple furrow to harvest yellow | G |
| Now and forever | B |
| How our feet itch to keep time to their measure | B |
| How our hearts lift to the lilt of their song | Q |
| Let the world go for a day's royal pleasure | B |
| Not every summer such waifs come along | Q |
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| Now they are off to the inn | R |
| Hear the clean ring of their laughter | B |
| Cool as a hill brook after | B |
| The beat of the noon sets in | R |
| Gentlemen even in jollity | F |
| Certainly people of quality | F |
| Waifs and estrays no less | C |
| Roofless and penniless | C |
| They are the wayside strummers | C |
| Whose lips are man's renown | L |
| Those wayward brats of Summer's | C |
| Who stroll from town to town | L |
| Spendthrift of life they ravish | K |
| The days of an endless store | B |
| And ever the more they lavish | K |
| The heap of the hoard is more | B |
| For joy and love and vision | E |
| Are alive and breed and stay | F |
| When dust shall hold in derision | E |
| The misers of a day | F |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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