A Degenerate Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDECFCCCGH| Where is the man who has been tried and found strong and sound | A |
| Where is the friend of reason and of knowledge | B |
| I see only sceptics and weaklings | C |
| I see only prisoners in the durance of the senses | C |
| And every fool and every spendthrift | D |
| Thinks himself as great a master as Aristotle | E |
| Think'st thou that they have written poems | C |
| Call'st thou that a Song | F |
| I call it the cackling of ravens | C |
| The zeal of the prophet must free poesy | C |
| From the embrace of wanton youths | C |
| My song I have inscribed on the forehead of Time | G |
| They know and hate it for it is lofty | H |
Emma Lazarus
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