A Commonplace Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGDGD HIJIADAD CKCKADAD DDLDMDMD CNCNCDCD GOGOGPGP GQGQRDRD GSGSGDGD| Ebbs and flows the restless river | A |
| In the city street | B |
| Where the great nerve centres quiver | A |
| Where the pulses beat | B |
| Where the human waves are driving | C |
| Drifts a woman s face | D |
| White and worn by ceaseless striving | C |
| With the commonplace | D |
| Want has written strange inscriptions | E |
| On the brow and cheek | F |
| Pain could weave some weird descriptions | E |
| If the lips would speak | F |
| Toil has touched the lines of beauty | G |
| And the curves of grace | D |
| Comeliness is good but duty | G |
| Rules the commonplace | D |
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| Thick soled shoes and shabby bonnet | H |
| Dingy cotton gloves | I |
| Old turned dress with darns upon it | J |
| Not what woman loves | I |
| Gaunt umbrella green with weather | A |
| One must self efface | D |
| To keep home and bairns together | A |
| In the commonplace | D |
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| Late and early never shirking | C |
| Tub and scrub and broom | K |
| Late at night with needle working | C |
| In the dwelling room | K |
| Yet when week s receipts are thinner | A |
| Grocers bills to face | D |
| Tenpence means three children s dinner | A |
| In the commonplace | D |
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| Poets sing their wild Iambics | D |
| Love and War and Gods | D |
| Let us sing of humble women | L |
| Fighting fearful odds | D |
| Not where steel and bullets rattle | M |
| And the squadrons race | D |
| But the grim unending battle | M |
| With the commonplace | D |
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| Now they shriek the creeds are dying | C |
| Faith is of the air | N |
| Wailfully their lyres are sighing | C |
| Sonnets of despair | N |
| All the scheme of things evolving | C |
| Somehow out of Space | D |
| Darken then instead of solving | C |
| This grim commonplace | D |
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| Rogues may win success and glory | G |
| Beauty pride of fame | O |
| Statesmen make a nation s story | G |
| Poets deathless name | O |
| But the patient woman Toiler | G |
| What is hers to win | P |
| On the one hand Want the Spoiler | G |
| On the other Sin | P |
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| Ye who swear and strut and bluster | G |
| So called manly pride | Q |
| When you answer at the muster | G |
| On the other side | Q |
| Will the courage you have vaunted | R |
| Stand you in such grace | D |
| As weak hands that fought undaunted | R |
| With the commonplace | D |
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| Noblest worth works ever humbly | G |
| Oftest is unseen | S |
| Half the world is toiling dumbly | G |
| In the gray routine | S |
| Sing O Poet of the Morrow | G |
| Cheer the weary face | D |
| Where brave women moil and sorrow | G |
| In the commonplace | D |
George Essex Evans
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