Poor Pierrot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CDEE FFGG HHII| Here far away from the city here by the yellow dunes | A |
| I will lie and soothe my heart where the sea croons | A |
| For what can I do with strife or what can I do with hate | B |
| Or the city or life or fame or love or fate | B |
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| Or the struggle since time began of the rich and poor | C |
| Or the law that drives the weak from the temple's door | D |
| Bury me under the sand so that my sorrow shall lie | E |
| Hidden under the dunes from the world's eye | E |
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| I have learned the secret of silence silence long and deep | F |
| The dead knew all that I know that is why they sleep | F |
| They could do nothing with fate or love or fame or strife | G |
| When life fills full the soul then life kills life | G |
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| I would glide under the earth as a shadow over a dune | H |
| Into the soul of silence under the sun and moon | H |
| And forever as long as the world stands or the stars flee | I |
| Be one with the sands of the shore and one with the sea | I |
Edgar Lee Masters
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