Vagabondia. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDECEDFGHGG I GJGJKJKKK GLLMGMGGGNNGOOPPG QQRSRSNTNTNUNU NNVWWWX VGGVVX YYXXVZVZGXGX A2NA2NA2B2 XWWXA2A2C2C2 XWD2WD2W NNNNNNNGNNNNNG NWWN NWWGNNNGGGGE2GE2NNOff with the fetters | A |
That chafe and restrain | B |
Off with the chain | B |
Here Art and Letters | A |
Music and wine | C |
And Myrtle and Wanda | D |
The winsome witches | E |
Blithely combine | C |
Here are true riches | E |
Here is Golconda | D |
Here are the Indies | F |
Here we are free | G |
Free as the wind is | H |
Free as the sea | G |
Free | G |
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Houp la | I |
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What have we | G |
To do with the way | J |
Of the Pharisee | G |
We go or we stay | J |
At our own sweet will | K |
We think as we say | J |
And we say or keep still | K |
At our own sweet will | K |
At our own sweet will | K |
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Here we are free | G |
To be good or bad | L |
Sane or mad | L |
Merry or grim | M |
As the mood may be | G |
Free as the whim | M |
Of a spook on a spree | G |
Free to be oddities | G |
Not mere commodities | G |
Stupid and salable | N |
Wholly available | N |
Ranged upon shelves | G |
Each with his puny form | O |
In the same uniform | O |
Cramped and disabled | P |
We are not labelled | P |
We are ourselves | G |
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Here is the real | Q |
Here the ideal | Q |
Laughable hardship | R |
Met and forgot | S |
Glory of bardship | R |
World's bloom and world's blot | S |
The shock and the jostle | N |
The mock and the push | T |
But hearts like the throstle | N |
A joy in the bush | T |
Wits that would merrily | N |
Laugh away wrong | U |
Throats that would verily | N |
Melt Hell in Song | U |
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What though the dimes be | N |
Elusive as rhymes be | N |
And Bessie with finger | V |
Uplifted is warning | W |
That breakfast next morning | W |
A subject she's scorning | W |
Is mighty uncertain | X |
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What care we Linger | V |
A moment to kiss | G |
No time's amiss | G |
To a vagabond's ardor | V |
Thee finish the larder | V |
And pull down the curtain | X |
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Unless ere the kiss come | Y |
Black Richard or Bliss come | Y |
Or Tom with a flagon | X |
Or Karl with a jag on | X |
Then up and after | V |
The joy of the night | Z |
With the hounds of laughter | V |
To follow the flight | Z |
Of the fox foot hours | G |
That double and run | X |
Through brakes and bowers | G |
Of folly and fun | X |
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With the comrade heart | A2 |
For a moment's play | N |
And the comrade heart | A2 |
For a heavier day | N |
And the comrade heart | A2 |
Forever and aye | B2 |
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For the joy of wine | X |
Is not for long | W |
And the joy of song | W |
Is a dream of shine | X |
But the comrade heart | A2 |
Shall outlast art | A2 |
And a woman's love | C2 |
The fame thereof | C2 |
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But wine for a sign | X |
Of the love we bring | W |
And song for an oath | D2 |
That Love is king | W |
And both and both | D2 |
For his worshipping | W |
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Then up and away | N |
Till the break of day | N |
With a heart that's merry | N |
And a Tom and Jerry | N |
And a derry down derry | N |
What's that you say | N |
You highly respectable | N |
Buyers and sellers | G |
We should be decenter | N |
Not as we please inter | N |
Custom frugality | N |
Use and morality | N |
In the delectable | N |
Depths of wine cellars | G |
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Midnights of revel | N |
And noondays of song | W |
Is it so wrong | W |
Go to the Devil | N |
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I tell you that we | N |
While you are smirking | W |
And lying and shirking | W |
life's duty of duties | G |
Honest sincerity | N |
We are in verity | N |
Free | N |
Free to rejoice | G |
In blisses and beauties | G |
Free as the voice | G |
Of the wind as it passes | G |
Free as the bird | E2 |
In the weft of the grasses | G |
Free as the word | E2 |
Of the sun to the sea | N |
Free | N |
Bliss Carman (william)
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