Selves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GBGB HGIG DGJG KLML NOPO QRDS TUGV| My dust in ruined Babylon | A |
| Is blown along the level plain | B |
| And songs of mine at dawn have soared | C |
| Above the blue Sicilian main | B |
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| We are ourselves and not ourselves | D |
| For ever thwarting pride and will | E |
| Some forebear's passion leaps from death | F |
| To claim a vital license still | E |
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| Ancestral lusts that slew and died | G |
| Resurgent swell each living vein | B |
| Old doubts and faiths new panoplied | G |
| Dispute the mastery of the brain | B |
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| The love of liberty that flames | H |
| From written rune and stricken reed | G |
| Shook the hot hearts of swordsmen sires | I |
| At Marathon and Runnymede | G |
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| What are these things we call our selves | D |
| Have I not shouted sobbed and died | G |
| In the bright surf of spears that broke | J |
| Where Greece rolled back the Persian tide | G |
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| Are we who breathe more quick than they | K |
| Whose bones are dust within the tomb | L |
| Nay as I write what gray old ghosts | M |
| Murmur and mock me from the gloom | L |
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| They call across strange seas they call | N |
| Strange seas and haunted coasts of time | O |
| They startle me with wordless songs | P |
| To which the Sphinx hath known the rhyme | O |
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| Our hearts swell big with dead men's hates | Q |
| Our eyes sting hot with dead men's tears | R |
| We are ourselves but not ourselves | D |
| Born heirs but serfs to all the years | S |
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| I rode with Nimrod strove at Troy | T |
| A slave I stood in Crowning Tyre | U |
| A queen looked on me and I loved | G |
| And died to compass my desire | V |
Don Marquis
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