A Study In Feeling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEBB CCBBFF BBDDGG BBBBHH FFIIJJ| To be a great musician you must be a man of moods | A |
| You have to be to understand sonatas and etudes | A |
| To execute pianos and to fiddle with success | B |
| With sympathy and feeling you must fairly effervesce | B |
| It was so with Paganini Remenzi and Cho pang | C |
| And so it was with Peterkin Von Gabriel O'Lang | C |
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| Monsieur O'Lang had sympathy to such a great degree | D |
| No virtuoso ever lived was quite so great as he | D |
| He was either very happy or very very sad | E |
| He was always feeling heavenly or oppositely bad | E |
| In fact so sympathetic that he either must enthuse | B |
| Or have the dumps feel ecstacy or flounder in the blues | B |
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| So all agreed that Peterkin Von Gabriel O'Lang | C |
| Was the greatest violinist in the virtuoso gang | C |
| The ladies bought his photographs and put them on the shelves | B |
| In the place of greatest honor right beside those of themselves | B |
| They gladly gave ten dollars for a stiff backed parquette chair | F |
| And sat in mouth wide happiness a looking at his hair | F |
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| I say a looking at his hair I mean just what I say | B |
| For no one ever had a chance to hear P O'Lang play | B |
| So subtle was his sympathy so highly strung was he | D |
| His moods were barometric to the very last degree | D |
| The slightest change of weather would react upon his brain | G |
| And fill his soul with joyousness or murder it with pain | G |
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| And when his soul was troubled he had not the heart to play | B |
| But let his head droop sadly down in such a soulful way | B |
| That every one that saw him declared it was worth twice | B |
| And some there were said three times the large admission price | B |
| And all were quite unanimous and said it would be crude | H |
| For such a man to fiddle when he wasn't in the mood | H |
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| But when his soul was filled with joy he tossed his flowing hair | F |
| And waved his violin bow in great circles in the air | F |
| Ecstaticly he flourished it for so his spirit thrilled | I |
| Thus only could he show the joy with which his heart was filled | I |
| And so he waved it up and down and 'round and out and in | J |
| But he never never NEVER touched it to his violin | J |
Ellis Parker Butler
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