A Poem In Place Of A Lecture Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDCCEEFGGFFHHBIIB B| Or Vice Versa | A |
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| This morning friends the blackboard will be black | B |
| Behind my skull your eyelids will be slack | B |
| And I could wearily cajole from you or you | C |
| Slow answers to dull questions or grow annoyed | D |
| Earnestly deploying on the black void | D |
| Lyra s measured stars But I must learn anew | C |
| To cope with darkness these voids won t do | C |
| As palps where I could plot the dusty lore | E |
| The diagrams the arty emblems you ignore | E |
| Your blood too thin to tick into the brain | F |
| The winged horse mustered from the sod | G |
| To be the Muses pet a demi god | G |
| High in black heaven I will not strain | F |
| The chalk crumpling your eyelids flickering to explain | F |
| Why ignorant men pricked darkness full of scars | H |
| And gave them godly names and called them stars | H |
| You quench whole constellations on the black | B |
| Walls of your skulls arts you dishonour die | I |
| The sky will go black and Hippocrene run dry | I |
| Before I will fix one light in your blind skulls this black | B |
| Morning friends The blackboard will stay black | B |
James Phillip Mcauley
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