Bokardo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDC EFEFGGGF HIHIJJJI KLKMNNNL OPOPDDDP QRQSTTDS UDUDVVVD DDDDWWWD DDDDXXYD ZA2ZKB2C2C2A2 DDDDD2D2D2D ADADE2E2E2D F2G2H2I2DDDJ2 DDDDDDDD TK2TK2B2C2B2K2

Well Bokardo here we areA
Make yourself at homeB
Look around you haven't farA
To look and why be dumbC
Not the place that used to beD
Not so many things to seeD
But there's room for you and meD
And you you've comeC
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Talk a little or if notE
Show me with a signF
Why it was that you forgotE
What was yours and mineF
Friends I gather are small thingsG
In an age when coins are kingsG
Even at that one hardly flingsG
Friends before swineF
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Rather strong I knew as muchH
For it made you speakI
No offense to swine as suchH
But why this hide and seekI
You have something on your sideJ
And you wish you might have diedJ
So you tell me And you triedJ
One night last weekI
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You tried hard And even thenK
Found a time to pauseL
When you try as hard againK
You'll have another causeM
When you find yourself at oddsN
With all dreamers of all godsN
You may smite yourself with rodsN
But not the lawsL
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Though they seem to show a spiteO
Rather devilishP
They move on as with a mightO
Stronger than your wishP
Still however strong they beD
They bide man's authorityD
Xerxes when he flogged the seaD
May've scared a fishP
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It's a comfort if you likeQ
To keep honor warmR
But as often as you strikeQ
The laws you do no harmS
To the laws I mean To youT
That's another point of viewT
One you may as well indueD
With some alarmS
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Not the most heroic faceU
To present I grantD
Nor will you insure disgraceU
By fearing what you wantD
Freedom has a world of sidesV
And if reason once deridesV
Courage then your courage hidesV
A deal of cantD
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Learn a little to forgetD
Life was once a feastD
You aren't fit for dying yetD
So don't be a beastD
Few men with a mind will sayW
Thinking twice that they can payW
Half their debts of yesterdayW
Or be releasedD
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There's a debt now on your mindD
More than any goldD
And there's nothing you can findD
Out there in the coldD
Only what's his name RemorseX
And Death riding on his horseX
Well be glad there's nothing worseY
Than you have toldD
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Leave Remorse to warm his handsZ
Outside in the rainA2
As for Death he understandsZ
And he will come againK
Therefore till your wits are clearB2
Flourish and be quiet hereC2
But a devil at each earC2
Will be a strainA2
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Past a doubt they will indeedD
More than you have earnedD
I say that because you needD
Ablution being burnedD
Well if you must have it soD2
Your last flight went rather lowD2
Better say you had to knowD2
What you have learnedD
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And that's over Here you areA
Battered by the pastD
Time will have his little scarA
But the wound won't lastD
Nor shall harrowing surpriseE2
Find a world without its eyesE2
If a star fades when the skiesE2
Are overcastD
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God knows there are lives enoughF2
Crushed and too far goneG2
Longer to make sermons ofH2
And those we leave aloneI2
Others if they will may rendD
The worn patience of a friendD
Who though smiling sees the endD
With nothing doneJ2
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But your fervor to be freeD
Fled the faith it scornedD
Death demands a decencyD
Of you and you are warnedD
But for all we give we getD
Mostly blows Don't be upsetD
You Bokardo are not yetD
Consumed or mournedD
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There'll be falling into viewT
Much to rearrangeK2
And there'll be a time for youT
To marvel at the changeK2
They that have the least to fearB2
Question hardest what is hereC2
When long hidden skies are clearB2
The stars look strangeK2

Edwin Arlington Robinson



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