Shakespeare's Festival Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBABCCBCCCCDBBDBCCB| WHILE we keep our Poet's Tercentennial | A |
| Every school and city with its emulous | B |
| Antic or solemnity what tremulous | B |
| Laughter on the air O Puck perennial | A |
| Leave us clumsy mortals to our drolleries | B |
| Strenuous gambols of Shakespearean gratitude | C |
| And be off to find him in Beatitude | C |
| Win his genial glance with elf cajoleries | B |
| And then tell him of our sage frivolity | C |
| Till his golden laughter wake eternity | C |
| And about him flock his old fraternity | C |
| All his scapegrace fellows of the quality | C |
| Greene not jealous Heminge no more stammering | D |
| Marlowe one white flame of passion glorious | B |
| Rare Ben modest vagabonds victorious | B |
| All about the Master crowding clamoring | D |
| Talking all at once in odes and triolets | B |
| Sonnets like the stars for prodigality | C |
| While Will Shakespeare loafs with Immortality | C |
| On a stolen bank of Arden violets | B |
Katharine Lee Bates
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