The Sunken Crown Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCDC| Nothing will hold him longer let him go | A |
| Let him go down where others have gone down | B |
| Little he cares whether we smile or frown | B |
| Or if we know or if we think we know | A |
| The call is on him for his overthrow | A |
| Say we so let him rise or let him drown | B |
| Poor fool He plunges for the sunken crown | B |
| And we we wait for what the plunge may show | A |
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| Well we are safe enough Why linger then | C |
| The watery chance was his not ours Poor fool | D |
| Poor truant poor Narcissus out of school | D |
| Poor jest of Ascalon poor king of men | C |
| The crown if he be wearing it may cool | D |
| His arrogance and he may sleep again | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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