Two Lyrics From Kilroy's Carnival: A Masque Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEB FGGHIJKIJ L MMMNNNMOPOQMM| I Aria | A |
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| Kiss me there where pride is glittering | B |
| Kiss me where I am ripened and round fruit | C |
| Kiss me wherever however I am supple bare and flare | D |
| Let the bell be rung as long as I am young | E |
| let ring and fly like a great bronze wing | B |
| - | |
| I'll kiss you wherever you think you are poor | F |
| Wherever you shudder feeling striped or barred | G |
| Because you think you are bloodless skinny or marred | G |
| Until until | H |
| your gaze has been stilled | I |
| Until you are shamed again no more | J |
| I'll kiss you until your body and soul | K |
| the mind in the body being fulfilled | I |
| Suspend their dread and civil war | J |
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| II Song | L |
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| Under the yellow sea | M |
| Who comes and looks with me | M |
| For the daughters of music the fountains of poetry | M |
| Both have soared forth from the unending waters | N |
| Where all things still are seeds and far from flowers | N |
| And since they remain chained to the sea's powers | N |
| May wilt to nonentity or loll and arise to comedy | M |
| Or thrown into mere accident through irrelevant incident | O |
| Dissipate all identity ceaselessly fragmented by the ocean's | P |
| immense and intense irresistible and insistent | O |
| action | Q |
| Be scattered like the sand is purposely and relentlessly | M |
| Living in the summer resorts of the dead endlessly | M |
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