Webster Ford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEFGHIJKELMNOLAM PQAROSJTUVA| Do you remember O Delphic Apollo | A |
| The sunset hour by the river when Mickey M'Grew | B |
| Cried There's a ghost and I It's Delphic Apollo | A |
| And the son of the banker derided us saying It's light | C |
| By the flags at the water's edge you half witted fools | D |
| And from thence as the wearisome years rolled on long after | E |
| Poor Mickey fell down in the water tower to his death | F |
| Down down through bellowing darkness I carried | G |
| The vision which perished with him like a rocket which falls | H |
| And quenches its light in earth and hid it for fear | I |
| Of the son of the banker calling on Plutus to save me | J |
| Avenged were you for the shame of a fearful heart | K |
| Who left me alone till I saw you again in an hour | E |
| When I seemed to be turned to a tree with trunk and branches | L |
| Growing indurate turning to stone yet burgeoning | M |
| In laurel leaves in hosts of lambent laurel | N |
| Quivering fluttering shrinking fighting the numbness | O |
| Creeping into their veins from the dying trunk and branches | L |
| 'Tis vain O youth to fly the call of Apollo | A |
| Fling yourselves in the fire die with a song of spring | M |
| If die you must in the spring For none shall look | P |
| On the face of Apollo and live and choose you must | Q |
| 'Twixt death in the flame and death after years of sorrow | A |
| Rooted fast in the earth feeling the grisly hand | R |
| Not so much in the trunk as in the terrible numbness | O |
| Creeping up to the laurel leaves that never cease | S |
| To flourish until you fall O leaves of me | J |
| Too sere for coronal wreaths and fit alone | T |
| For urns of memory treasured perhaps as themes | U |
| For hearts heroic fearless singers and livers | V |
| Delphic Apollo | A |
Edgar Lee Masters
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