The Mendicants Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ SHFH NTUT VWXW HYZY A2MUM B2C2D2C2| We are as mendicants who wait | A |
| Along the roadside in the sun | B |
| Tatters of yesterday and shreds | C |
| Of morrow clothe us every one | B |
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| And some are dotards who believe | D |
| And glory in the days of old | E |
| While some are dreamers harping still | F |
| Upon an unknown age of gold | E |
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| Hopeless or witless Not one heeds | G |
| As lavish Time comes down the way | H |
| And tosses in the suppliant hat | I |
| One great new minted gold To day | H |
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| Ungrateful heart and grudging thanks | J |
| His beggar's wisdom only sees | K |
| Housing and bread and beer enough | L |
| He knows no other things than these | K |
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| O foolish ones put by your care | M |
| Where wants are many joys are few | N |
| And at the wilding springs of peace | O |
| God keeps an open house for you | N |
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| But that some Fortunatus' gift | P |
| Is lying there within his hand | Q |
| More costly than a pot of pearls | R |
| His dulness does not understand | Q |
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| And so his creature heart is filled | S |
| His shrunken self goes starved away | H |
| Let him wear brand new garments still | F |
| Who has a threadbare soul I say | H |
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| But there be others happier few | N |
| The vagabondish sons of God | T |
| Who know the by ways and the flowers | U |
| And care not how the world may plod | T |
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| They idle down the traffic lands | V |
| And loiter through the woods with spring | W |
| To them the glory of the earth | X |
| Is but to hear a bluebird sing | W |
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| They too receive each one his Day | H |
| But their wise heart knows many things | Y |
| Beyond the sating of desire | Z |
| Above the dignity of kings | Y |
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| One I remember kept his coin | A2 |
| And laughing flipped it in the air | M |
| But when two strolling pipe players | U |
| Came by he tossed it to the pair | M |
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| Spendthrift of joy his childish heart | B2 |
| Danced to their wild outlandish bars | C2 |
| Then supperless he laid him down | D2 |
| That night and slept beneath the stars | C2 |
Bliss Carman And Richard Hovey
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