Jongleurs. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC CDCBDBBBBBCEECB FFCCBBCCCCCCCCCCCCCC GGHIHI CECEJKJCKDCEFEBDBFBB BBLL MFFMNBOBBMBMMBBGBGBD BDGGCCCBBBBPPBBBBGGG BBQBQ RBBRFFCCCLCLKBKBEFEFWhat 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 (william)
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