Thoughts On Leaving Japan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFBGHI BBJ KLMNOPQBBRSMTB BBJ| A changing medley of insistent sounds | A |
| Like broken airs played on a Samisen | B |
| Pursues me as the waves blot out the shore | C |
| The trot of wooden heels the warning cry | D |
| Of patient runners laughter and strange words | E |
| Of children children children everywhere | F |
| The clap of reverent hands before some shrine | B |
| And over all the haunting temple bells | G |
| Waking in silent chambers of the soul | H |
| Dim memories of long forgotten lives | I |
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| But oh the sorrow of the undertone | B |
| The wail of hopeless weeping in the dawn | B |
| From lips that smiled through gilded bars at night | J |
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| Brave little people of large aims you bow | K |
| Too often and too low before the Past | L |
| You sit too long in worship of the dead | M |
| Yet have you risen open eyed to greet | N |
| The great material Present Now salute | O |
| The greater Future blazing its bold trail | P |
| Through old traditions Leave your dead to sleep | Q |
| In quiet peace with God Let your concern | B |
| Be with the living and the yet unborn | B |
| Bestow on them your thoughts and waste no time | R |
| In costly honours to insensate dust | S |
| Unlock the doors of usefulness and lead | M |
| Your lovely daughters forth to larger fields | T |
| Away from jungles of the ancient sin | B |
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| For oh the sorrow of that undertone | B |
| The wail of hopeless weeping in the dawn | B |
| From lips that smiled through gilded bars at night | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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