Critic And Poet: An Epilogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCB DEDEDE| i Poetry must be simple sensuous or impassioned this man is neither simple sensuous nor impassioned therefore he is not a poet i | A |
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| No man had ever heard a nightingale | B |
| When once a keen eyed naturalist was stirred | C |
| To study and define what is a bird | C |
| To classify by rote and book nor fail | B |
| To mark its structure and to note the scale | B |
| Whereon its song might possibly be heard | C |
| Thus far no farther so he spake the word | C |
| When of a sudden hark the nightingale | B |
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| Oh deeper higher than he could divine | D |
| That all unearthly untaught strain He saw | E |
| The plain brown warbler unabashed Not mine | D |
| He cried the error of this fatal flaw | E |
| No bird is this it soars beyond my line | D |
| Were it a bird 'twould answer to my law | E |
Emma Lazarus
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