Improvisation On An Old Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDDC EEC FFC GGC HHC IIC JJC CKKC LLC MMC NNC OOC PPC QQC| The refrain is quoted by Edward Fitzgerald in | A |
| one of his letters | B |
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| I | - |
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| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
| Flashing out of fire and light burning to a husk | D |
| All the world's a dying and failing in the dusk | D |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| Rust is on the door latch ashes at the root | E |
| Dry rot in the ridge pole canker in the fruit | E |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| Plot ye subtle statesmen a trace of melted wax | F |
| Bind ye haughty prelates a thread of ravelled flax | F |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| March ye mighty captains an eddy in the dust | G |
| Rave ye furious lovers a stain of crimson rust | G |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| Pictures poems music their essential soul | H |
| Idle as dry roses in a silver bowl | H |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| London is a hearsay Paris but a myth | I |
| Rome a wand of sweet flag withered to the pith | I |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| Palsy shakes the planets frost has chilled the sun | J |
| In a crushing silence the All is dead and done | J |
| Growing growing all the glory going | C |
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| II | - |
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| Going going all the glory growing | C |
| See it stir and flutter that is singing hark | K |
| Singing in the caverns of the primal dark | K |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| What is in the making what immortal plan | L |
| Draws to its unfolding 'Tis the Soul of man | L |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| See it mount and hover singing as it goes | M |
| Battling with the darkness nourished by its woes | M |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| The bale fires of midnight glaring in its eyes | N |
| Past the phantom shadows see it rush and rise | N |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| The supernal morning on its dewy wings | O |
| Soaring and scorning the lust of earthy things | O |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| The beatific noontide on its eager breast | P |
| Springing and singing to its halcyon rest | P |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
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| In its starry vesture not a vestige of the sod | Q |
| Winging still and singing to the heart of God | Q |
| Going going all the glory growing | C |
Duncan Campbell Scott
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