Leffingwell Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CAADAA E FGGFFGGF AHAIHI A JEEJJEEK AAGLLG| No no forget your Cricket and your Ant | A |
| For I shall never set my name to theirs | B |
| That now bespeak the very sons and heirs | B |
| Incarnate of Queen Gossip and King Cant | A |
| The case of Leffingwell is mixed I grant | A |
| And futile Seems the burden that he bears | B |
| But are we sounding his forlorn affairs | B |
| Who brand him parasite and sycophant | A |
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| I tell you Leffingwell was more than these | C |
| And if he prove a rather sorry knight | A |
| What quiverings in the distance of what light | A |
| May not have lured him with high promises | D |
| And then gone down He may have been deceived | A |
| He may have lied he did and he believed | A |
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| II THE QUICKSTEP | E |
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| The dirge is over the good work is done | F |
| All as he would have had it and we go | G |
| And we who leave him say we do not know | G |
| How much is ended or how much begun | F |
| So men have said before of many a one | F |
| So men may say of us when Time shall throw | G |
| Such earth as may be needful to bestow | G |
| On you and me the covering hush we shun | F |
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| Well hated better loved he played and lost | A |
| And left us and we smile at his arrears | H |
| And who are we to know what it all cost | A |
| Or what we may have wrung from him the buyer | I |
| The pageant of his failure laden years | H |
| Told ruin of high price The place was higher | I |
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| III REQUIESCAT | A |
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| We never knew the sorrow or the pain | J |
| Within him for he seemed as one asleep | E |
| Until he faced us with a dying leap | E |
| And with a blast of paramount profane | J |
| And vehement valediction did explain | J |
| To each of us in words that we shall keep | E |
| Why we were not to wonder or to weep | E |
| Or ever dare to wish him back again | K |
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| He may be now an amiable shade | A |
| With merry fellow phantoms unafraid | A |
| Around him but we do not ask We know | G |
| That he would rise and haunt us horribly | L |
| And be with us o' nights of a certainty | L |
| Did we not hear him when he told us so | G |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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