The Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPEQ RSTUVP WXSYRI| Amid the din of cars and automobiles | A |
| At the corner of a towering pile of granite | B |
| Under the city's soaring brick and stone | C |
| Where multitudes go hurrying by you stand | D |
| With eyeless sockets playing on a flute | E |
| And an old woman holds the cup for you | F |
| Wherein a curious passer by at times | G |
| Casts a poor coin | H |
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| You are so blind you cannot see us men | I |
| As walking trees | J |
| I fancy from the tune | K |
| You play upon the flute you have a vision | L |
| Of leafy trees along a country road side | M |
| Where wheat is growing and the meadow larks | N |
| Rise singing in the sun shine | O |
| In your darkness | P |
| You may see such things playing on your flute | E |
| Here in the granite ways of mad Chicago | Q |
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| And here's another on a farther corner | R |
| With head thrown back as if he searched the skies | S |
| He's selling evening papers what's to him | T |
| The flaring headlines Yet he calls the news | U |
| That is his flute perhaps for one can call | V |
| Or play the flute in blindness | P |
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| Yet I think | W |
| It's neither news nor music with these blind ones | X |
| Rather the hope of re created eyes | S |
| And a light out of death | Y |
| How can it be I hear them over and over | R |
| There never shall be eyes for me again | I |
Edgar Lee Masters
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