For A Dance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGHI JKJK LALM NONP| There is in the dance | A |
| The joy of children on a May day lawn | B |
| The fragments of old dreams and dead romance | A |
| Come to us from the dancers who are gone | B |
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| What strains of ancient blood | C |
| Move quicker to the music's passionate beat | D |
| I see the gulls fly over a shadowy flood | C |
| And Munster fields of barley and of wheat | D |
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| And I see sunny France | A |
| And the vine's tendrils quivering to the light | E |
| And faces faces yearning for the dance | A |
| With wistful eyes that look on our delight | E |
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| They live through us again | F |
| And we through them who wish for lips and eyes | G |
| Wherewith to feel not fancy the old pain | H |
| Passed with reluctance through the centuries | I |
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| To us who in the maze | J |
| Of dancing and hushed music woven afresh | K |
| Amid the shifting mirrors of hours and days | J |
| Know not our spirit neither know our flesh | K |
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| Nor what ourselves have been | L |
| Through the long way that brought us to the dance | A |
| I see a little green by Camolin | L |
| And odorous orchards blooming in Provence | M |
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| Two listen to the roar | N |
| Of waves moon smitten where no steps intrude | O |
| Who knows what lips were kissed at Laracor | N |
| Or who it was that walked through Burnham wood | P |
Edgar Lee Masters
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