City Visions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBCBBCDEFDEF A GHHGHGGHAIJAIJ| I | A |
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| As the blind Milton's memory of light | B |
| The deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone | C |
| Wrought joys for them surpassing all things known | C |
| In our restricted sphere of sound and sight | B |
| So while the glaring streets of brick and stone | C |
| Vex with heat noise and dust from morn till night | B |
| I will give rein to Fancy taking flight | B |
| From dismal now and here and dwell alone | C |
| With new enfranchised senses All day long | D |
| Think ye 't is I who sit 'twixt darkened walls | E |
| While ye chase beauty over land and sea | F |
| Uplift on wings of some rare poet's song | D |
| Where the wide billow laughs and leaps and falls | E |
| I soar cloud high free as the the winds are free | F |
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| II | A |
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| Who grasps the substance who 'mid shadows strays | G |
| He who within some dark bright wood reclines | H |
| 'Twixt sleep and waking where the needled pines | H |
| Have cushioned all his couch with soft brown sprays | G |
| He notes not how the living water shines | H |
| Trembling along the cliff a flickering haze | G |
| Brimming a wine bright pool nor lifts his gaze | G |
| To read the ancient wonders and the signs | H |
| Does he possess the actual or do I | A |
| Who paint on air more than his sense receives | I |
| The glittering pine tufts with closed eyes behold | J |
| Breathe the strong resinous perfume see the sky | A |
| Quiver like azure flame between the leaves | I |
| And open unseen gates with key of gold | J |
Emma Lazarus
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