The Muse And The Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDCEFFGGHI J KLLKMNNMMMM MMAAMMOI G DDPPMMMQQQM RMMMFF MSMSMM MQMQMM TU| The Muse said Let us sing a little song | A |
| Wherein no hint of wrong | A |
| No echo of the great world need or pain | B |
| Shall mar the strain | B |
| Lock fast the swinging portal of thy heart | C |
| Keep sympathy apart | C |
| Sing of the sunset of the dawn the sea | D |
| Of any thing or nothing so there be | D |
| No purpose to thy art | C |
| Yea let us make art for Art's sake | E |
| And sing no more unto the hearts of men | F |
| But for the critic's pen | F |
| With songs that are but words sweet sounding words | G |
| Like joyous jargon of the birds | G |
| Tune now thy lyre O Poet and sing on | H |
| Sing of | I |
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| THE DAWN | J |
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| The Virgin Night all languorous with dreams | K |
| Of her beloved Darkness rose in fear | L |
| Feeling the presence of another near | L |
| Outside her curtained casement shone the gleams | K |
| Of burning orbs and modestly she hid | M |
| Her brow and bosom with her dusky hair | N |
| When lo the bold intruder lurking there | N |
| Leaped through the fragile lattice all unbid | M |
| And half unveiled her Then the swooning Night | M |
| Fell pale and dead while yet her soul was white | M |
| Before that lawless Ravisher the Light | M |
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| The Muse said Poet nay thou host not caught | M |
| My meaning For there lurks a thought | M |
| Back of thy song | A |
| In art all thought is wrong | A |
| Re string thy lyre and let the echoes bound | M |
| To nothing but sweet sound | M |
| Strike now the chords | O |
| And sing of | I |
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| WORDS | G |
| - | |
| One day sweet Ladye Language gave to me | D |
| A little golden key | D |
| I sat me down beside her jewel box | P |
| And turned its locks | P |
| And oh the wealth that lay there in my sight | M |
| Great solitaires of words so bright so bright | M |
| Words that no use can commonize like God | M |
| And Truth and Love and words of sapphire blue | Q |
| And amber words with sunshine dripping through | Q |
| And words of that strange hue | Q |
| A pearl reveals upon a wanton's hand | M |
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| Again the Muse | R |
| Thou dost not understand | M |
| A thought within thy song is lingering yet | M |
| Sing but of words all else forget forget | M |
| Nor let thy words convey one thought to men | F |
| Try once again | F |
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| Down through the dusk and dew there fell a word | M |
| Down through the dew and dusk | S |
| And all the garments of the air it stirred | M |
| Smelled sweet as musk | S |
| And all the little waves of air it kissed | M |
| Turned cold and amethyst | M |
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| There in the dew and dusk a heart it found | M |
| There in the dusk and dew | Q |
| The sodden silence changed to fragrant sound | M |
| And all the world seemed new | Q |
| Upon the path that little word had trod | M |
| There shone the smile of God | M |
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| The Muse said Drop thy lyre | T |
| I tire I tire | U |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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