The Singer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCDEEEFGHHDAB IB JJJFKKKDLLLDIB| A little while with love and youth | A |
| He wandered singing | B |
| He felt life's pulses hot and strong | C |
| Beat all his rapid veins along | C |
| He wrought life's rhythms into song | C |
| He laughed he sang the Dawn | D |
| So close so close to life he dwelt | E |
| That at rare times and rapt he felt | E |
| The fleshly barriers yield and melt | E |
| He trembled looking on | F |
| Creation at her miracles | G |
| His soul sight pierced the earthly shells | H |
| And saw the spirit weave its spells | H |
| The veil of clay withdrawn | D |
| A little while with love and youth | A |
| He wandered singing | B |
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| A little while with age and death | I |
| He wanders dreaming | B |
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| No more the thunder and the urge | J |
| Of earth's full tides that storm the verge | J |
| Of heaven with their sweep and surge | J |
| Shall lift shall bear him on | F |
| Where is the golden hope that led | K |
| Him comrade with the mighty dead | K |
| The love that aureoled his head | K |
| The glory is withdrawn | D |
| How shall one soar with broken wings | L |
| The leagued might of futile things | L |
| Wars with the heart that dares and sings | L |
| It is not always Dawn | D |
| A little while with age and death | I |
| He wanders dreaming | B |
Don Marquis
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