Sonnet Suggested By Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Vakzy, James Joyce, Et Al. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEFGC CHEIIIJIKLIAMNG| Let me not ever to the marriage in Cana | A |
| Of Galilee admit the slightest sentiment | B |
| Of doubt about the astonishing and sustaining manna | A |
| Of chance and choice to throw a shadow's element | B |
| Of disbelief in truth Love is not love | C |
| Nor is the love of love its truth in consciousness | D |
| If it can be made hesitant by any crow or dove or | E |
| seeming angel or demon from above or from below | F |
| Or made more than it is knows itself to be by the authority | G |
| of any ministry of love | C |
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| O no it is the choice of chances and the chancing of | C |
| all choice the wine | H |
| which was the water may be sickening unsatisfying or | E |
| sour | I |
| A new barbiturate drawn from the fattest flower | I |
| That prospers green on Lethe's shore For every hour | I |
| Denies or once again affirms the vow and the ultimate | J |
| tower | I |
| Of aspiration which made Ulysses toil so far away from | K |
| home | L |
| And then for years strive against every wanton desire | I |
| sea and fire to return across the | A |
| ever threatening seas | M |
| A journey forever far beyond all the vivid eloquence | N |
| of every poet and all poetry | G |
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