The Revealer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEC FCFCCGCH IJIJJCJC JKJKKLKL CMCMMNMO JMJMMJMJ CPCPPJPJ MQMQQCQC JRJSSCSC| ROOSEVELT | A |
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| He turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and | B |
| behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase | C |
| of the lion And the men of the city said unto him What | D |
| is sweeter than honey and what is stronger than a | E |
| lion Judges | C |
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| The palms of Mammon have disowned | F |
| The gift of our complacency | C |
| The bells of ages have intoned | F |
| Again their rhythmic irony | C |
| And from the shadow suddenly | C |
| 'Mid echoes of decrepit rage | G |
| The seer of our necessity | C |
| Confronts a Tyrian heritage | H |
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| Equipped with unobscured intent | I |
| He smiles with lions at the gate | J |
| Acknowledging the compliment | I |
| Like one familiar with his fate | J |
| The lions having time to wait | J |
| Perceive a small cloud in the skies | C |
| Whereon they look disconsolate | J |
| With scared reactionary eyes | C |
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| A shadow falls upon the land | J |
| They sniff and they are like to roar | K |
| For they will never understand | J |
| What they have never seen before | K |
| They march in order to the door | K |
| Not knowing the best thing to seek | L |
| Nor caring if the gods restore | K |
| The lost composite of the Greek | L |
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| The shadow fades the light arrives | C |
| And ills that were concealed are seen | M |
| The combs of long defended hives | C |
| Now drip dishonored and unclean | M |
| No Nazarite or Nazarene | M |
| Compels our questioning to prove | N |
| The difference that is between | M |
| Dead lions or the sweet thereof | O |
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| But not for lions live or dead | J |
| Except as we are all as one | M |
| Is he the world's accredited | J |
| Revealer of what we have done | M |
| What You and I and Anderson | M |
| Are still to do is his reward | J |
| If we go back when he is gone | M |
| There is an Angel with a Sword | J |
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| He cannot close again the doors | C |
| That now are shattered for our sake | P |
| He cannot answer for the floors | C |
| We crowd on or for walls that shake | P |
| He cannot wholly undertake | P |
| The cure of our immunity | J |
| He cannot hold the stars or make | P |
| Of seven years a century | J |
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| So Time will give us what we earn | M |
| Who flaunt the handful for the whole | Q |
| And leave us all that we may learn | M |
| Who read the surface for the soul | Q |
| And we'll be steering to the goal | Q |
| For we have said so to our sons | C |
| When we who ride can pay the toll | Q |
| Time humors the far seeing ones | C |
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| Down to our nose's very end | J |
| We see and are invincible | R |
| Too vigilant to comprehend | J |
| The scope of what we cannot sell | S |
| But while we seem to know as well | S |
| As we know dollars or our skins | C |
| The Titan may not always tell | S |
| Just where the boundary begins | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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