Demos Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCB BDCB EFFEFE A GHHGGIHG JIIKIK| I | A |
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| All you that are enamored of my name | B |
| And least intent on what most I require | C |
| Beware for my design and your desire | C |
| Deplorably are not as yet the same | B |
| - | |
| Beware I say the failure and the shame | B |
| Of losing that for which you now aspire | D |
| So blindly and of hazarding entire | C |
| The gift that I was bringing when I came | B |
| - | |
| Give as I will I cannot give you sight | E |
| Whereby to see that with you there are some | F |
| To lead you and be led But they are dumb | F |
| Before the wrangling and the shrill delight | E |
| Of your deliverance that has not come | F |
| And shall not if I fail you as I might | E |
| - | |
| - | |
| II | A |
| - | |
| So little have you seen of what awaits | G |
| Your fevered glimpse of a democracy | H |
| Confused and foiled with an equality | H |
| Not equal to the envy it creates | G |
| That you see not how near you are the gates | G |
| Of an old king who listens fearfully | I |
| To you that are outside and are to be | H |
| The noisy lords of imminent estates | G |
| - | |
| Rather be then your prayer that you shall have | J |
| Your kingdom undishonored Having all | I |
| See not the great among you for the small | I |
| But hear their silence for the few shall save | K |
| The many or the many are to fall | I |
| Still to be wrangling in a noisy grave | K |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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