Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGF HIJIKLML NOIOPMQM RSTUVWXW IYZYIA2OA2For Eleanor Rogers Cox | A |
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For blows on the fort of evil | B |
That never shows a breach | C |
For terrible life long races | D |
To a goal no foot can reach | C |
For reckless leaps into darkness | E |
With hands outstretched to a star | F |
There is jubilation in Heaven | G |
Where the great dead poets are | F |
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There is joy over disappointment | H |
And delight in hopes that were vain | I |
Each poet is glad there was no cure | J |
To stop his lonely pain | I |
For nothing keeps a poet | K |
In his high singing mood | L |
Like unappeasable hunger | M |
For unattainable food | L |
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So fools are glad of the folly | N |
That made them weep and sing | O |
And Keats is thankful for Fanny Brawne | I |
And Drummond for his king | O |
They know that on flinty sorrow | P |
And failure and desire | M |
The steel of their souls was hammered | Q |
To bring forth the lyric fire | M |
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Lord Byron and Shelley and Plunkett | R |
McDonough and Hunt and Pearse | S |
See now why their hatred of tyrants | T |
Was so insistently fierce | U |
Is Freedom only a Will o' the wisp | V |
To cheat a poet's eye | W |
Be it phantom or fact it's a noble cause | X |
In which to sing and to die | W |
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So not for the Rainbow taken | I |
And the magical White Bird snared | Y |
The poets sing grateful carols | Z |
In the place to which they have fared | Y |
But for their lifetime's passion | I |
The quest that was fruitless and long | A2 |
They chorus their loud thanksgiving | O |
To the thorn crowned Master of Song | A2 |
Joyce Kilmer
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