At The Feast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GG DDHD IIJI KKLK MMNM BLB

EVOLVING changing onwards still we pressA
We must advance invent construct possessA
No matter what a price we have to payB
We must obtain perfection and no lessA
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Perfection in our luxuries the hoursC
Fulfilled of sweetness must be slaves of oursC
Our air be rich with music and soft lightD
And all our halls be odorous with flowersC
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How our least want may best be satisfiedE
How not a pleasure may be left untriedE
How to appease each longing and desireF
This we have learned and something else besideE
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Yes we have learned to know and not to shrinkG
From knowing to what depths our brothers sinkG
And we have learned the lesson 'not to feel '-
And we have learned the lesson 'not to think '-
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We must have learned it otherwise to nightD
When sped by wine and feasting time takes flightD
When perfect music searches for our soulH
And all these flowers unfold for our delightD
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We should not hear the music but insteadI
Hear that wild bitter heart sick cry for breadI
And in the lamps that light our lavish feastJ
Should see but tapers burning for the deadI
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We should not see the myriad blossoms wasteK
The bloom of them would be thrust back displacedK
By the white faces of the starving childrenL
Wasted and wan who might have been flower facedK
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Oh not to think To think and not to careM
Oh woman hearts still do these flowers seem fairM
Can music drown the little piteous voicesN
Can you not see the little faces thereM
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For 'faring sumptuously every day '-
For raiment soft and music on our wayB
We give the tortured lives of little childrenL
For such a purchase what a price to payB

Edith Nesbit



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