Rhyme And Reason. An Apologue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL HMHMHH| Two children of the olden time | A |
| In Flora's primrose season | B |
| Were born The name of one was Rhyme | A |
| That of the other Reason | B |
| And both were beautiful and fair | C |
| And pure as mountain stream and air | C |
| - | |
| As the boys together grew | D |
| Happy fled their hours | E |
| Grief or care they never knew | D |
| In the Paphian bowers | E |
| See them roaming hand in hand | F |
| The pride of all the choral band | F |
| - | |
| Music with harp of golden strings | G |
| Love with bow and quiver | H |
| Airy sprites on radiant wings | G |
| Nymphs of wood and river | H |
| Joined the Muses' constant song | I |
| As Rhyme and Reason passed along | I |
| - | |
| But the scene was changed the boys | J |
| Left their native soil | K |
| Rhyme's pursuit was idle joys | J |
| Reason's manly toil | K |
| Soon Rhyme was starving in a ditch | L |
| While Reason grew exceeding rich | L |
| - | |
| Since the dark and fatal hour | H |
| When the brothers parted | M |
| Reason has had wealth and power | H |
| Rhyme's poor and broken hearted | M |
| And now or bright or stormy weather | H |
| They twain are seldom seen together | H |
George Pope Morris
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