This Earth, It Is Also A Star Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC ABABBCBC ADABBCBC BCBC| Where the singers of Saturn find tongue | A |
| Where the Galaxy's lovers embrace | B |
| Our world and its beauty are sung | A |
| They lean from their casements to trace | B |
| If our planet still spins in its place | B |
| Faith fables the thing that we are | C |
| And Fantasy laughs and gives chase | B |
| This earth it is also a star | C |
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| Round the sun that is fixed and hung | A |
| For a lamp in the darkness of space | B |
| We are whirled we are swirled we are flung | A |
| Singing and shining we race | B |
| And our light on the uplifted face | B |
| Of dreamer or prophet afar | C |
| May fall as a symbol of grace | B |
| This earth it is also a star | C |
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| Looking out where our planet is swung | A |
| Doubt loses his writhen grimace | D |
| Dry hearts drink the gleams and are young | A |
| Where agony's boughs interlace | B |
| His Garden some Jesus may pace | B |
| Lifting the wan avatar | C |
| His soul to this light as a vase | B |
| This earth it is also a star | C |
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| Great spirits in sorrowful case | B |
| Yearn to us through the vapors that bar | C |
| Canst think of that soul and be base | B |
| This earth it is also a star | C |
Don Marquis
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