To Idleness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCAAEEF GGGGHGIJIJKKFAAF GGLMLMNONO PPDAQQARSRSR| Sweet Idleness you linger at the door | A |
| To lead me down through meadows cool with shade | B |
| Down to the brook over whose pebbly floor | A |
| The fishes unafraid | B |
| Swim softly careless of our airy world | C |
| I hear you ever singing calling ever | D |
| Bidding me sever | D |
| The chain so close about my spirit curled | C |
| Why do I toil and pore | A |
| When you are at the door | A |
| Surely Time's slave am I and you will shun me | E |
| Surely the delvers of the dark have won me | E |
| If here I stay when you are fled away | F |
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| O Idleness where sleep your votaries | G |
| In what enchanted garden of pure bliss | G |
| Float their dim dreams on lotus laden wings | G |
| What joy of musical imaginings | G |
| Lulls them in banishment | H |
| Ah call them back to earth that weary is | G |
| Ah call them back with sleepy eyed Content | I |
| Close in their flowery train | J |
| And bid them soothe a world whose joys are spent | I |
| Who prays for peace in vain | J |
| Tell them to twine their wreaths round yonder brow | K |
| Whence lovely hopes flamed skyward once where now | K |
| Greed showers his ashes gray | F |
| Bedew those eyes until they shine once more | A |
| For exiled youth unbar the rusted door | A |
| And save a soul to day | F |
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| Oh will you linger with the butterflies | G |
| And man's high love despise | G |
| I know one fit for your sweet wooing | L |
| Ah save him from the beckoning death | M |
| Too swiftly Beauty's quest pursuing | L |
| Soon must he fall and fail of breath | M |
| The dull world speeds him on oh haste | N |
| With roses bind him bear him far | O |
| Sing him sweet songs weave visions chaste | N |
| Till he is strong to seek his star | O |
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| Ah we have sinned and grievous is our shame | P |
| You we have banished and reviled your name | P |
| Till men dig deep in shadows rubbing o'er | D |
| Their earthy store | A |
| And maids pink petalled like the morn | Q |
| For you and love and dalliance born | Q |
| Toil clamorous in the dark and smile no more | A |
| Do you hear the noise Ah no for you are flown | R |
| Now you will follow | S |
| The flight of song through fields with daisies sown | R |
| The sport of thrush and swallow | S |
| Rhymes with your joy and I must brood alone | R |
Harriet Monroe
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