On Reading Crowds And Power Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFEGHIJIKL MNOPQRHSTUVW XTYZA2B2FC2D2| A | |
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| Cloven we are incorporate our wounds | B |
| simple but mysterious We have | C |
| some wherewithal to bide our time on earth | D |
| Endurance is fantastic ambulances | E |
| battling at intersections the city | F |
| intolerably en f te My reflexes | E |
| are words themselves rather than standard | G |
| flexures of civil power In all of this | H |
| Cassiopeia's a blessing | I |
| as is steady Orion beloved of poets | J |
| Quotidian natures ours for the time being | I |
| I do not know | K |
| how we should be absolved or what is fate | L |
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| Fame is not fastidious about the lips | M |
| which spread it So long as there are mouths | N |
| to reiterate the one name it does not | O |
| matter whose they are | P |
| The fact that to the seeker after fame | Q |
| they are indistinguishable from each other | R |
| and are all counted as equal shows that this | H |
| passion has its origin in the experience | S |
| of crowd manipulation Names collect | T |
| their own crowds They are greedy live their own | U |
| separate lives hardly at all connected | V |
| with the real natures of the men who bear them | W |
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| But hear this that which is difficult | X |
| preserves democracy you pay respect | T |
| to the intelligence of the citizen | Y |
| Basics are not condescension Some | Z |
| tyrants make great patrons Let us observe | A2 |
| this and pass on Certain directives | B2 |
| parody at your own risk Tread lightly | F |
| with personal dignity and public image | C2 |
| Safeguard the image of the common man | D2 |
Geoffrey Hill
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