Poet Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters

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The Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGH IJKLMNOPEQ RSTUVP WXSYRI

Amid the din of cars and automobilesA
At the corner of a towering pile of graniteB
Under the city's soaring brick and stoneC
Where multitudes go hurrying by you standD
With eyeless sockets playing on a fluteE
And an old woman holds the cup for youF
Wherein a curious passer by at timesG
Casts a poor coinH
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You are so blind you cannot see us menI
As walking treesJ
I fancy from the tuneK
You play upon the flute you have a visionL
Of leafy trees along a country road sideM
Where wheat is growing and the meadow larksN
Rise singing in the sun shineO
In your darknessP
You may see such things playing on your fluteE
Here in the granite ways of mad ChicagoQ
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And here's another on a farther cornerR
With head thrown back as if he searched the skiesS
He's selling evening papers what's to himT
The flaring headlines Yet he calls the newsU
That is his flute perhaps for one can callV
Or play the flute in blindnessP
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Yet I thinkW
It's neither news nor music with these blind onesX
Rather the hope of re created eyesS
And a light out of deathY
How can it be I hear them over and overR
There never shall be eyes for me againI

Edgar Lee Masters



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