The Master Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GGGGGFGF HIHIIIII JKJKKIKI ILILLMLN OPOPPJPJ QJQJJRSR| A flying word from here and there | A |
| Had sown the name at which we sneered | B |
| But soon the name was everywhere | A |
| To be reviled and then revered | B |
| A presence to be loved and feared | B |
| We cannot hide it or deny | C |
| That we the gentlemen who jeered | B |
| May be forgotten by and by | C |
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| He came when days were perilous | D |
| And hearts of men were sore beguiled | E |
| And having made his note of us | D |
| He pondered and was reconciled | E |
| Was ever master yet so mild | E |
| As he and so untamable | F |
| We doubted even when he smiled | E |
| Not knowing what he knew so well | F |
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| He knew that undeceiving fate | G |
| Would shame us whom he served unsought | G |
| He knew that he must wince and wait | G |
| The jest of those for whom he fought | G |
| He knew devoutly what he thought | G |
| Of us and of our ridicule | F |
| He knew that we must all be taught | G |
| Like little children in a school | F |
| - | |
| We gave a glamour to the task | H |
| That he encountered and saw through | I |
| But little of us did he ask | H |
| And little did we ever do | I |
| And what appears if we review | I |
| The season when we railed and chaffed | I |
| It is the face of one who knew | I |
| That we were learning while we laughed | I |
| - | |
| The face that in our vision feels | J |
| Again the venom that we flung | K |
| Transfigured to the world reveals | J |
| The vigilance to which we clung | K |
| Shrewd hallowed harassed and among | K |
| The mysteries that are untold | I |
| The face we see was never young | K |
| Nor could it wholly have been old | I |
| - | |
| For he to whom we had applied | I |
| Our shopman's test of age and worth | L |
| Was elemental when he died | I |
| As he was ancient at his birth | L |
| The saddest among kings of earth | L |
| Bowed with a galling crown this man | M |
| Met rancor with a cryptic mirth | L |
| Laconic and Olympian | N |
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| The love the grandeur and the fame | O |
| Are bounded by the world alone | P |
| The calm the smouldering and the flame | O |
| Of awful patience were his own | P |
| With him they are forever flown | P |
| Past all our fond self shadowings | J |
| Wherewith we cumber the Unknown | P |
| As with inept Icarian wings | J |
| - | |
| For we were not as other men | Q |
| 'Twas ours to soar and his to see | J |
| But we are coming down again | Q |
| And we shall come down pleasantly | J |
| Nor shall we longer disagree | J |
| On what it is to be sublime | R |
| But flourish in our perigee | S |
| And have one Titan at a time | R |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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