On Tradition Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDF GHGHIJIK LMLMNANA| LINES PROVOKED BY HEARING A YOUNG MAN WHISTLING | A |
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| No carmine radical in Art | B |
| I worship at the shrine of Form | C |
| Yet open are my mind and heart | B |
| To each departure from the norm | C |
| When Post Impressionism emerged | D |
| I hesitated but a minute | E |
| Before I saw though it diverged | D |
| That there was something healthy in it | F |
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| And eke when Music heavenly maid | G |
| Undid the chains that chafed her feet | H |
| I grew to like discordant shade | G |
| Unharmony I thought was sweet | H |
| When verse divorced herself from sound | I |
| I wept at first Now I say Oh well | J |
| I see some sense in Ezra Pound | I |
| And nearly some in Amy Lowell | K |
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| Yet though I storm at every change | L |
| And each mutation makes me wince | M |
| I am not shut to all things strange | L |
| I'm rather easy to convince | M |
| But hereunto I set my seal | N |
| My nerves awry askew abristling | A |
| I'll never change the way I feel | N |
| Upon the question of Free Whistling | A |
Franklin Pierce Adams
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