Matthew Arnold On Hearing Him Read His Poems In Boston Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD AEAE AFAF GHGH IJIJ| A stranger schooled to gentle arts | A |
| He stept before the curious throng | B |
| His path into our waiting hearts | A |
| Already paved by song | B |
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| Full well we knew his choristers | A |
| Whose plaintive voices haunt our rest | C |
| Those sable vested harbingers | A |
| Of melancholy guest | C |
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| We smiled on him for love of these | A |
| With eyes that swift grew dim to scan | D |
| Beneath the veil of courteous ease | A |
| The faith forsaken man | D |
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| To his wan gaze the weary shows | A |
| And fashions of our vain estate | E |
| Our shallow pain and false repose | A |
| Our barren love and hate | E |
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| Are shadows in a land of graves | A |
| Where creeds the bubbles of a dream | F |
| Flash each and fade like melting waves | A |
| Upon a moonlight stream | F |
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| Yet loyal to his own despair | G |
| Erect beneath a darkened sky | H |
| He deems the austerest truth more fair | G |
| Than any gracious lie | H |
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| And stands heroic patient sage | I |
| With hopeless hands that bind the sheaf | J |
| Claiming God's work with His wage | I |
| The bard of unbelief | J |
Katharine Lee Bates
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