To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO| I who am dead a thousand years | A |
| And wrote this sweet archaic song | B |
| Send you my words for messengers | C |
| The way I shall not pass along | B |
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| I care not if you bridge the seas | D |
| Or ride secure the cruel sky | E |
| Or build consummate palaces | F |
| Of metal or of masonry | G |
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| But have you wine and music still | H |
| And statues and a bright eyed love | I |
| And foolish thoughts of good and ill | H |
| And prayers to them who sit above | I |
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| How shall we conquer Like a wind | J |
| That falls at eve our fancies blow | K |
| And old Moeonides the blind | J |
| Said it three thousand years ago | K |
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| O friend unseen unborn unknown | L |
| Student of our sweet English tongue | M |
| Read out my words at night alone | L |
| I was a poet I was young | M |
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| Since I can never see your face | N |
| And never shake you by the hand | O |
| I send my soul through time and space | N |
| To greet you You will understand | O |
James Elroy Flecker
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