Sonnet (the Master And The Slave Go Hand In Hand) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBC DEFDDF| The master and the slave go hand in hand | A |
| Though touch be lost The poet is a slave | B |
| And there be kings do sorrowfully crave | B |
| The joyance that a scullion may command | A |
| But ah the sonnet slave must understand | A |
| The mission of his bondage or the grave | B |
| May clasp his bones or ever he shall save | B |
| The perfect word that is the poet's wand | C |
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| The sonnet is a crown whereof the rhymes | D |
| Are for Thought's purest gold the jewel stones | E |
| But shapes and echoes that are never done | F |
| Will haunt the workshop as regret sometimes | D |
| Will bring with human yearning to sad thrones | D |
| The crash of battles that are never won | F |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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