Samuel Butler Et Al Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Let me consider your emergenceA
From the milieu of our youthB
We have played all the afternoon grown hungryC
No meal has been prepared where have you beenD
Toward sun's decline we see you down the pathE
And run to meet you and perhaps you smileF
Or take us in your arms Perhaps againG
You look at us say nothing are absorbedH
Or chide us for our dirty frocks or facesI
Of running wild without our mealsJ
You do not speakK
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Then in the house seized with a sudden joyL
After removing gloves and hat you runM
As with a winged descending flight and cryN
Half song half exclamationM
Seize one of usO
Crush one of us with mad embraces biteP
Ears of us in a rapture of affectionM
You shall have supper then you sayQ
The stove lids rattle wood's poked in the fireR
The kettle steams pots boil by seven o'clockS
We sit down to a meal of hodge podge stuffT
I understand now how your youth and spiritsU
Fought back the drabness of the villageV
And wonder not you spent the afternoonsW
With such bright company as Eugenia TurnerR
And I forgive you hunger lonelinessO
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But when we asked you where you'd beenD
Complained of loneliness and hunger spoke of childrenM
Who lived in order sat down thrice a dayQ
To cream and porridge bread and meatX
We think to corner you alas for usO
Your anger flashes swords Reasons pour outY
Like anvil sparks to justify your wayQ
Your father's always gone you selfish childrenM
You'd have me in the house from morn till nightP
You put us in the wrong our cause is routedZ
We turn to bed unsatisfied in mindA2
You've overwhelmed us not convinced usO
Our sense of wrong defeat breeds resolutionM
To whip you out when minds grow strongB2
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Up in the moon lit room without a lightP
The lamps have not been filledC2
We crawl in unmade bedsD2
We leave you pouring over paper backsE2
We peek above your shoulderR
It is The Lady in White you readF2
Next morning you are dead for sleepG2
You've sat up more than half the nightP
We have been playing hours when you ariseH2
It's nine o'clock when breakfast's served at lastI2
When school days come I'm always late to schoolJ2
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Shy hungry children scuffle at your doorK2
Eye through the crack maybe at nine o'clockS
Find father has returned during the nightP
You are all happiness his idlest wordL2
Provokes your laughterR
He shows us rolls of precious money earnedM2
He's given you a silk dress money tooN2
For suits and shoes for us all is forgivenM
You run about the houseO2
As with a winged descending flight and cryN
Half song half exclamationM
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We're sick so much But then no human soulP2
Could be more sweet when one of us is sickQ2
We run to colds have measles mumps our throatsR2
Are weak the doctor says If rooms were warmerR
And clothes were warmer food more regularR
And sleep more regular it might be differentS2
Then there's the well You fear the waterR
He laughs at you we children drink the waterR
Though it tastes bitter shows white particlesT2
It may be shreds of rats drowned in the wellU2
The village has no drainage blights and mildewsV2
Get in our throats I spend a certain springW2
Bent over yellow coughing blood at timesX2
Sick to somnambulistic sense of thingsY2
You blame him for the well that's just one thingW2
You seem to differ about everythingW2
You seem to hate each other when you quarrelZ2
We cry take sides sometimes are whippedA3
For taking sidesB3
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Our broken school days lose us cluesV2
Some lesson has been missed the final meaningW2
And wholeness of the grammar are disturbedC3
That shall not be made up in all our lifeD3
The children save a few are not our friendsE3
Some taunt us with your quarrelsT2
We learn great secrets scrawled in signs or wordsF3
Of foulness on the fences So it isG3
An American village in a great RepublicH3
Where men are free where therefore goodness wisdomI3
Must have their wayQ
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We reach the budding ageJ3
Sweet aches are in our breastsK3
Is it spring or God or music is it youN2
I am all tenderness for you at timesX2
Then hate myself for feeling so my fleshL3
Crawls by an instinct from you You repel meC
Sometimes with an insidious smile a lookM3
What are these phantasies I have They breedN3
Strange hatred for you even while I feelO3
My soul's home is with you must be with youN2
To find my soul's restP3
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I must go back a little At ten yearsQ3
I play with PaulaR3
I plait her crowns of flowers carry her booksS3
Defend her watch her choose her in the gamesT3
You overhear us under the oak treeC
Calling her doll our child You catch my coatU3
And draw me in the houseO2
When I resist you whip me cruellyC
To think of whipping me at such timeV3
And mix the shame of smarting legs and backW3
With love of PaulaR3
So I lose PaulaR3
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I am a man at lastI2
I now can master what you are and seeC
What you have been You cannot rout me nowX3
Or put me in the wrong Out of old woundsY3
Remembrance of your baffling daysZ3
I take great strength and show youN2
Where you have been untruthful where a haterR
Where narrow bitter growing in on selfA4
Where you neglected usO
Where you heaped fast destruction on our fatherR
For now I know that you devoured his soulP2
And that no soul that you could not devourR
Could have its peace with youN2
You've dwindled to a quiet word like thisB4
You are unfilial Which means at lastI2
That I have conquered you at least it meansC4
That you could not devour meC
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Yet am I blind to you Let me confessD4
You are the world's whole cycle in yourselfA4
You can be summer rich and luminousO
You can be autumn mellow mysticalZ2
You can be winter with a cheerful hearthE4
You can be March bitter bright and hardF4
Pouring sharp sleet and showering cutting hailG4
You can be April of the flying cloudH4
And intermittent sun and musical airI4
I am not you while being youN2
While finding in myself so much of youN2
It tears my other self which is not youN2
My tragedy is this I do not love youN2
Your tragedy is this my other selfA4
Which triumphs over you you hate at heartJ4
Your solace is you have no faith in meC
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All quiet now no March days with you nowX3
Only the soft coals slumbering in your faceK4
I saw you totter over a ravineL4
Your eyes averted watching stepsM4
A light of resignation on your browX3
Your thin spun hair all gray blown by the windA2
Which swayed the blossomed cherry treesN4
Bent last year's reedsO4
Shook early dandelions and tossed a birdL2
That left a branch with songB2
I saw you totter over a ravineL4
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What were you at the startJ4
What soul dissatisfaction sense of wrongB2
Of being thwarted stung youN2
What was your shrinking of the fleshL3
What fear of being soiled misunderstoodP4
What wrath for loneliness which constant hopeQ4
Saw turned to fine companionshipR4
What in your marriage what in seeing meC
The fruit of marriage recreated traitsS4
Of face or spirit which you loathedT4
What in your father and your motherR
And in the chromosomes from which you grewN2
By what mitosis could result at lastI2
In you in issues of such momentS2
In our dissevered beingsY2
In what the world will take from meC
In children in eventsU4
All quiet now no March days with you nowX3
Only the soft coals slumbering in your faceK4
I saw you totter over a ravineL4
And back of you the FuriesK4

Edgar Lee Masters



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