Opportunity (from Machiavelli) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABA BCB CDC DED EFE FGF GHGH| But who art thou with curious beauty graced | A |
| O woman stamped with some bright heavenly seal | B |
| Why go thy feet on wings and in such haste | A |
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| I am that maid whose secret few may steal | B |
| Called Opportunity I hasten by | C |
| Because my feet are treading on a wheel | B |
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| Being more swift to run than birds to fly | C |
| And rightly on my feet my wings I wear | D |
| To blind the sight of those who track and spy | C |
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| Rightly in front I hold my scattered hair | D |
| To veil my face and down my breast to fall | E |
| Lest men should know my name when I am there | D |
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| And leave behind my back no wisp at all | E |
| For eager folk to clutch what time I glide | F |
| So near and turn and pass beyond recall | E |
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| Tell me who is that Figure at thy side | F |
| Penitence Mark this well that by decree | G |
| Who lets me go must keep her for his bride | F |
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| And thou hast spent much time in talk with me | G |
| Busied with thoughts and fancies vainly grand | H |
| Nor hast remarked O fool neither dost see | G |
| How lightly I have fled beneath thy hand | H |
James Elroy Flecker
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