Vagabondia. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDECEDFGHGG I GJGJKJKKK GLLMGMGGGNNGOOPPG QQRSRSNTNTNUNU NNVWWWX VGGVVX YYXXVZVZGXGX A2NA2NA2B2 XWWXA2A2C2C2 XWD2WD2W NNNNNNNGNNNNNG NWWN NWWGNNNGGGGE2GE2NN

Off with the fettersA
That chafe and restrainB
Off with the chainB
Here Art and LettersA
Music and wineC
And Myrtle and WandaD
The winsome witchesE
Blithely combineC
Here are true richesE
Here is GolcondaD
Here are the IndiesF
Here we are freeG
Free as the wind isH
Free as the seaG
FreeG
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Houp laI
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What have weG
To do with the wayJ
Of the PhariseeG
We go or we stayJ
At our own sweet willK
We think as we sayJ
And we say or keep stillK
At our own sweet willK
At our own sweet willK
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Here we are freeG
To be good or badL
Sane or madL
Merry or grimM
As the mood may beG
Free as the whimM
Of a spook on a spreeG
Free to be odditiesG
Not mere commoditiesG
Stupid and salableN
Wholly availableN
Ranged upon shelvesG
Each with his puny formO
In the same uniformO
Cramped and disabledP
We are not labelledP
We are ourselvesG
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Here is the realQ
Here the idealQ
Laughable hardshipR
Met and forgotS
Glory of bardshipR
World's bloom and world's blotS
The shock and the jostleN
The mock and the pushT
But hearts like the throstleN
A joy in the bushT
Wits that would merrilyN
Laugh away wrongU
Throats that would verilyN
Melt Hell in SongU
-
What though the dimes beN
Elusive as rhymes beN
And Bessie with fingerV
Uplifted is warningW
That breakfast next morningW
A subject she's scorningW
Is mighty uncertainX
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What care we LingerV
A moment to kissG
No time's amissG
To a vagabond's ardorV
Thee finish the larderV
And pull down the curtainX
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Unless ere the kiss comeY
Black Richard or Bliss comeY
Or Tom with a flagonX
Or Karl with a jag onX
Then up and afterV
The joy of the nightZ
With the hounds of laughterV
To follow the flightZ
Of the fox foot hoursG
That double and runX
Through brakes and bowersG
Of folly and funX
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With the comrade heartA2
For a moment's playN
And the comrade heartA2
For a heavier dayN
And the comrade heartA2
Forever and ayeB2
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For the joy of wineX
Is not for longW
And the joy of songW
Is a dream of shineX
But the comrade heartA2
Shall outlast artA2
And a woman's loveC2
The fame thereofC2
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But wine for a signX
Of the love we bringW
And song for an oathD2
That Love is kingW
And both and bothD2
For his worshippingW
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Then up and awayN
Till the break of dayN
With a heart that's merryN
And a Tom and JerryN
And a derry down derryN
What's that you sayN
You highly respectableN
Buyers and sellersG
We should be decenterN
Not as we please interN
Custom frugalityN
Use and moralityN
In the delectableN
Depths of wine cellarsG
-
Midnights of revelN
And noondays of songW
Is it so wrongW
Go to the DevilN
-
I tell you that weN
While you are smirkingW
And lying and shirkingW
life's duty of dutiesG
Honest sincerityN
We are in verityN
FreeN
Free to rejoiceG
In blisses and beautiesG
Free as the voiceG
Of the wind as it passesG
Free as the birdE2
In the weft of the grassesG
Free as the wordE2
Of the sun to the seaN
FreeN

Bliss Carman (william)



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