And Yet It Is A Gentle Art Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA CDCD EFEF GHGH BIBI| Parody is a genre frowned upon by your professors | A |
| of literature And yet it is a gentle art | B |
| 'The Point of View' in May Scribner's | A |
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| A sweet disorder in the verse | C |
| That never looks behind | D |
| Shall profit not who steals my purse | C |
| Let joy be unconfined | D |
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| How vainly men themselves amaze | E |
| The stars began to blink | F |
| An art that there were few to praise | E |
| Nor any dropp to drink | F |
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| O sleep it is a blessed thing | G |
| Which I must ne'er enjoy | H |
| There never was a fairer spring | G |
| Than when I was a boy | H |
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| One fond embrace and then we part | B |
| Good by my lover good by | I |
| And yet it is a gentle art | B |
| Which nobody can deny | I |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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