A Golden Lad Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IEIE EJEJ KLKL CMCM ENEN OPOP| Golden lads and lasses must | A |
| Like chimney sweepers come to dust | A |
| SHAKESPEARE | B |
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| So young but already the splendor | C |
| Of genius robed him about | D |
| Already the dangerous tender | C |
| Regard of the gods marked him out | D |
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| On whom the burden and duty | E |
| They bind at his earliest breath | F |
| Of showing their own grave beauty | E |
| They love and they crown with death | F |
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| We were of one blood but the olden | G |
| Rapt poets spake out in his tone | H |
| We were of one blood but the golden | G |
| Rathe promise was his his alone | H |
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| And ever his great eye glistened | I |
| With visions I could not see | E |
| Ever he thrilled and listened | I |
| To voices withholden from me | E |
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| Young lord of the realms of fancy | E |
| The bright dreams flocked to his call | J |
| Like sprites that the necromancy | E |
| Of a Prospero holds in thrall | J |
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| Quick visions that served and attended | K |
| Elusive and hovering things | L |
| With a quiver of joy in the splendid | K |
| Wild sweep of their luminous wings | L |
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| He dwelt in an alien glamor | C |
| He wrought of its gleams a crown | M |
| But the world with its cruelty and clamor | C |
| Broke him and beat him down | M |
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| So he passed he was worn he was weary | E |
| He was slain at the touch of life | N |
| With a smile that was wistful and eerie | E |
| He passed from the senseless strife | N |
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| So he ceased is their humor satiric | O |
| These gods that make perfect and blight | P |
| He ceased like an exquisite lyric | O |
| That dies on the breast of night | P |
Don Marquis
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