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