The White Lights Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCCCC CCDCCECE FEFEEGEG| BROADWAY | A |
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| When in from Delos came the gold | B |
| That held the dream of Pericles | C |
| When first Athenian ears were told | B |
| The tumult of Euripides | C |
| When men met Aristophanes | C |
| Who fledged them with immortal quills | C |
| Here where the time knew none of these | C |
| There were some islands and some hills | C |
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| When Rome went ravening to see | C |
| The sons of mothers end their days | C |
| When Flaccus bade Leucono euml | D |
| To banish her chaldean ways | C |
| When first the pearled alembic phrase | C |
| Of Maro into music ran | E |
| Here there was neither blame nor praise | C |
| For Rome or for the Mantuan | E |
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| When Avon like a faery floor | F |
| Lay freighted for the eyes of One | E |
| With galleons laden long before | F |
| By moonlit wharves in Avalon | E |
| Here where the white lights have begun | E |
| To seethe a way for something fair | G |
| No prophet knew from what was done | E |
| That there was triumph in the air | G |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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