Opening Ode Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEE FFGH IIJJ KK LL MMEE NOEE| Delivered at an Odd Fellows' Concert | A |
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| Some have formed strange conceptions about the mysteries of our order | B |
| They believe that enshrouded 'mong the deep and mysterious | C |
| surroundings of our dark recesses and caves we have chained | D |
| 'Gorgans and Hydras and Chimeras dire ' and that in our mazes | E |
| and labyrinths | E |
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| A horrid goat we have to ride | F |
| With long horns and shaggy hide | F |
| And that the beast we have to stride well | G |
| Without saddle or a bridle | H |
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| Friends with pleasure we do meet you | I |
| And with hearty welcome greet you | I |
| With many we have met before | J |
| So pleasantly in days of yore | J |
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| But some new faces we do find | K |
| And hope they'll criticise us kind | K |
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| Abroad for talent we don't roam | L |
| But friends and neighbors here at home | L |
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| Will give us now a splendid treat | M |
| With speeches good and songs so sweet | M |
| And instruments whose soothing charms | E |
| Will banish cares and our alarms | E |
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| In friendly deeds they lead the van | N |
| Both Oxford and Samaritan | O |
| To relieve brothers in distress | E |
| And bounteously the widows bless | E |
James Mcintyre
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