Old Rhythm And Rhyme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEDD FGFGHIJI KKKK CLFL EDEDD| They tell me new methods now govern the Muses | A |
| The modes of expression have changed with the times | B |
| That low is the rank of the poet who uses | A |
| The old fashioned verse with intentional rhymes | B |
| And quite out of date too is rhythmical metre | C |
| The critics declare it an insult to art | D |
| But oh the sweet swing of it oh the clear ring of it | E |
| Oh the great pulse of it right from the heart | D |
| Art or no art | D |
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| I sat by the side of that old poet Ocean | F |
| And counted the billows that broke on the rocks | G |
| The tide lilted in with a rhythmical motion | F |
| The sea gulls dipped downward in time keeping flocks | G |
| I watched while a giant wave gathered its forces | H |
| And then on the gray granite precipice burst | I |
| And I knew as I counted while other waves mounted | J |
| I knew the tenth billow would rhyme with the first | I |
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| Below in the village a church bell was chiming | K |
| And back in the woodland a little bird sang | K |
| And doubt it who will yet those two sounds were rhyming | K |
| As out o'er the hill tops they echoed and rang | K |
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| The Wind and the Trees fell to talking together | C |
| And nothing they said was didactic or terse | L |
| But everything spoken was told in unbroken | F |
| And beautiful rhyming and rhythmical verse | L |
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| So rhythm I hail it though critics assail it | E |
| And hold melting rhymes as an insult to art | D |
| For oh the sweet swing of it oh the dear ring of it | E |
| Oh the strong pulse of it right from the heart | D |
| Art or no art | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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