Ballad Of Broken Flutes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBA ABABBCDA ABABBCBB E BCBB| In dreams I crossed a barren land | A |
| A land of ruin far away | B |
| Around me hung on every hand | A |
| A deathful stillness of decay | B |
| And silent as in bleak dismay | B |
| That song should thus forsaken be | C |
| On that forgotten ground there lay | B |
| The broken flutes of Arcady | A |
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| The forest that was all so grand | A |
| When pipes and tabors had their sway | B |
| Stood leafless now a ghostly band | A |
| Of skeletons in cold array | B |
| A lonely surge of ancient spray | B |
| Told of an unforgetful sea | C |
| But iron blows had hushed for aye | D |
| The broken flutes of Arcady | A |
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| No more by summer breezes fanned | A |
| The place was desolate and gray | B |
| But still my dream was to command | A |
| New life into that shrunken clay | B |
| I tried it Yes you scan to day | B |
| With uncommiserating glee | C |
| The songs of one who strove to play | B |
| The broken flutes of Arcady | B |
| - | |
| ENVOY | E |
| - | |
| So Rock I join the common fray | B |
| To fight where Mammon may decree | C |
| And leave to crumble as they may | B |
| The broken flutes of Arcady | B |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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