The Model Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADD EFFEGG HIIHJJ KLLKMM NLLNDD OGGOPP QLLQR RDHHDLL SLLTHH DHHDLL JLJNNJLL UOOUUU LVVLLL| Have you forgotten you the chief | A |
| The art director president | B |
| What not of the establishment | C |
| Forgot how for a moment brief | A |
| The whole show all our strife and stir | D |
| Went out for her | D |
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| You led me through your galleries | E |
| And dreams the pictures new and old | F |
| And good and bad the battles bold | F |
| You fought with principalities | E |
| And powers We chaffed and laughed away | G |
| Such woes that day | G |
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| And built such castles domed and towered | H |
| For Art to live in by and by | I |
| When men should know the How and Why | I |
| For Art to live in throned and dowered | H |
| When the world's works and ways should be | J |
| Both fair and free | J |
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| From hope to rage and back again | K |
| We flashed flung curses red as bombs | L |
| At the dull age lit hecatombs | L |
| Of lies and laws and flaws and then | K |
| Reached for the stars and plucked them down | M |
| To make man's crown | M |
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| The Truth that was our cry the Truth | N |
| Whose heart and mind whose lips and eyes | L |
| Her first glance and her last surprise | L |
| Are Beauty All the while forsooth | N |
| Bold Chance the blind interpreter | D |
| Led us to her | D |
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| A school door swung and she was there | O |
| Strange how the proud world slunk away | G |
| And left her with the waning day | G |
| Alone All vanished unaware | O |
| The class the great high windowed hall | P |
| And we and all | P |
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| Yes all our plans the futile show | Q |
| Of art wherewith rash man aspires | L |
| To breathe into the dust life's fires | L |
| And be as God She stood aglow | Q |
| Fresh from God's hand 'Twas all in vain | R |
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| Our hope our pain | R |
| God beat us at the game For her | D |
| The dim day flared with rose and gold | H |
| A slim moon softly aureoled | H |
| She shone apart and would not stir | D |
| Hesitant at the rim of space | L |
| Veiling her face | L |
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| Out in the dream she rose afar | S |
| With Eve new flowered in paradise | L |
| With Helen whose effulgent eyes | L |
| Men sang to through the crash of war | T |
| With Aphrodite foam empearled | H |
| Kindling the world | H |
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| The winds of doom grew soft for her | D |
| Nor dared even touch the curls that hid | H |
| Her face in dusky gold nor chid | H |
| With change that recreant pillager | D |
| Her still immortal loveliness | L |
| So brave to bless | L |
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| The place a temple was and we | J |
| So brave to bless | L |
| The place a temple was and we | J |
| Tricked out with odds and ends of faith | N |
| Mere rags worn thin by life and death | N |
| Profaned the immaculate mystery | J |
| Looked on the truth with blasphemous eyes | L |
| Afraid to rise | L |
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| The moment met us and was gone | U |
| The proof of all and the despair | O |
| We sought the dark growing aware | O |
| Of our stript souls and then anon | U |
| Tried all in vain to tread again | U |
| The ways of men | U |
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| The bold words died upon our lips | L |
| The clatter of our feet grew still | V |
| Even now ah does it waft your will | V |
| Through ether seas in winged ships | L |
| The sight of her beyond shut eyes | L |
| The white surprise | L |
Harriet Monroe
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