The Poet's Metamorphosis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON APQR| Maecenas I propose to fly | A |
| To realms beyond these human portals | B |
| No common things shall be my wings | C |
| But such as sprout upon immortals | B |
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| Of lowly birth once shed of earth | D |
| Your Horace precious so you've told him | E |
| Shall soar away no tomb of clay | F |
| Nor Stygian prison house shall hold him | E |
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| Upon my skin feathers begin | G |
| To warn the songster of his fleeting | H |
| But never mind I leave behind | I |
| Songs all the world shall keep repeating | H |
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| Lo Boston girls with corkscrew curls | J |
| And husky westerns wild and woolly | K |
| And southern climes shall vaunt my rhymes | L |
| And all profess to know me fully | K |
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| Methinks the West shall know me best | M |
| And therefore hold my memory dearer | N |
| For by that lake a bard shall make | O |
| My subtle hidden meanings clearer | N |
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| So cherished I shall never die | A |
| Pray therefore spare your dolesome praises | P |
| Your elegies and plaintive cries | Q |
| For I shall fertilize no daisies | R |
Eugene Field
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