The Juggler Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE CGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQR STUV WEEE XYZY A2B2C2B2 C2D2SD2 E2F2G2N H2H2EH2 I2H2EH2| Look how he throws them up and up | A |
| The beautiful golden balls | B |
| They hang aloft in the purple air | C |
| And there never is one that falls | B |
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| He sends them hot from his steady hand | D |
| He teaches them all their curves | E |
| And whether the reach be little or long | F |
| There never is one that swerves | E |
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| Some like the tiny red one there | C |
| He never lets go far | G |
| And some he has sent to the roof of the tent | H |
| To swim without a jar | G |
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| So white and still they seem to hang | I |
| You wonder if he forgot | J |
| To reckon the time of their return | K |
| And measure their golden lot | J |
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| Can it be that hurried or tired out | L |
| The hand of the juggler shook | M |
| O never you fear his eye is clear | N |
| He knows them all like a book | M |
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| And they will home to his hand at last | O |
| For he pulls them by a cord | P |
| Finer than silk and strong as fate | Q |
| That is just the bid of his word | R |
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| Was ever there such a sight in the world | S |
| Like a wonderful winding skein | T |
| The way he tangles them up together | U |
| And ravels them out again | V |
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| He has so many moving now | W |
| You can hardly believe your eyes | E |
| And yet they say he can handle twice | E |
| The number when he tries | E |
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| You take your choice and give me mine | X |
| I know the one for me | Y |
| It's that great bluish one low down | Z |
| Like a ship's light out at sea | Y |
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| It has not moved for a minute or more | A2 |
| The marvel that it can keep | B2 |
| As if it had been set there to spin | C2 |
| For a thousand years asleep | B2 |
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| If I could have him at the inn | C2 |
| All by myself some night | D2 |
| Inquire his country and where in the world | S |
| He came by that cunning sleight | D2 |
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| Where do you guess he learned the trick | E2 |
| To hold us gaping here | F2 |
| Till our minds in the spell of his maze almost | G2 |
| Have forgotten the time of year | N |
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| One never could have the least idea | H2 |
| Yet why be disposed to twit | H2 |
| A fellow who does such wonderful things | E |
| With the merest lack of wit | H2 |
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| Likely enough when the show is done | I2 |
| And the balls all back in his hand | H2 |
| He'll tell us why he is smiling so | E |
| And we shall understand | H2 |
Bliss Carman (william)
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