The Mendicants. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ SHFH NTUT VWXW HYZY A2MUM B2C2D2C2We 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 (william)
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