Three Quatrains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC A DEDF A GHGH| I | A |
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| As long as Fame's imperious music rings | B |
| Will poets mock it with crowned words august | C |
| And haggard men will clamber to be kings | B |
| As long as Glory weighs itself in dust | C |
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| II | A |
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| Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled | D |
| Nor shudder for the revels that are done | E |
| The wines that flushed Lucullus are all spilled | D |
| The strings that Nero fingered are all gone | F |
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| III | A |
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| We cannot crown ourselves with everything | G |
| Nor can we coax the Fates for us to quarrel | H |
| No matter what we are or what we sing | G |
| Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel | H |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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