Music In A Crowd Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFH IJIJ KLKL MNMN| When I hear music whether waltz or psalm | A |
| Among a crowd I find myself alone | B |
| It does not touch me with a soothing balm | C |
| But brings an echo like a moan | B |
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| From some far country where a palace rose | D |
| In which I reigned with Cleopatra's pride | E |
| Come Charmian bring the asp for my repose | D |
| And queenly men shall say she died | E |
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| There lived and ruled a happy noble race | F |
| Primeval souls who held imperial power | G |
| My kindred gone forever from their place | F |
| And I am here without a dower | H |
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| They were a Vision though And are these real | I |
| These men and women moving as in sleep | J |
| Who smiling gesture to the same Ideal | I |
| For which the music makes me weep | J |
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| Have they my longings for that other world | K |
| New to them yet I grant that Music's swell | L |
| Is like the sea they may be thither hurled | K |
| By storms that thunder and compel | L |
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| Or like those voyagers in the land of streams | M |
| Glide through its languid air its languid wave | N |
| To learn that Here and There are but two dreams | M |
| That end in Nothing and the Grave | N |
Elizabeth Stoddard
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