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