Lost Nation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH GEGE IJIJ AKAK| Oh we are a lone lost nation | A |
| We who sing your songs | B |
| With his moods and his desolation | A |
| The poet nowhere belongs | B |
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| We are not of the people | C |
| Who labour believe and doubt | D |
| Like the bell that rings in the steeple | C |
| We are in the world yet out | D |
| - | |
| In the rustic town or the city | E |
| We seek our place in vain | F |
| And our hearts are starved for pity | E |
| And our souls are sick with pain | F |
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| Yes the people are buying selling | G |
| And the world is one great mart | H |
| And woe for the thoughts that are dwelling | G |
| Up in the poet's heart | H |
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| We know what the waves are saying | G |
| As they roll up from the sea | E |
| And the weird old wind is playing | G |
| Our own sad melody | E |
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| We send forth a song to wander | I |
| Like a spirit of ill or good | J |
| And here it is heard and yonder | I |
| But is nowhere understood | J |
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| For the world it lives for fashion | A |
| For glory and gain and strife | K |
| And what can it know of the passion | A |
| And pain of a poet's life | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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