To A Town Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB EFEEF GHGGH IJIIJ KLKKL MNMMN IOPPO QRQQR| Snatch the departing mood | A |
| Make yours its emptying reed and pipe us still | B |
| Faith in the time faith in our common blood | C |
| Faith in the least of good | D |
| Song cannot fail if these its spirits fill | B |
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| What if your heritage be | E |
| The huddled trees along the smoky ways | F |
| At a street's end the stretch of lilac sea | E |
| The vender swart but free | E |
| Crying his yellow wares across the haze | F |
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| Your verse awaits you there | G |
| For Love is Love though Latin swords be rust | H |
| The keen Greek driven from gossipping mall and square | G |
| And Care is still but Care | G |
| Though Homer and his seven towns are dust | H |
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| Thus Beauty lasts and lo | I |
| Now Proserpine is barred from Enna's hills | J |
| The flower she plucked yet makes an April show | I |
| Sets some town still a glow | I |
| And yours the Vision of the Daffodils | J |
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| The Old World folk knew not | K |
| More surge like sounds than urban winters bring | L |
| Up from the wharves at dusk to every spot | K |
| And no Sicilian plot | K |
| More fire than heaps our tulips in the spring | L |
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| Strait is the road of Song | M |
| And they that be the last are oft the first | N |
| Fret not for fame the years are kind though long | M |
| You in the teasing throng | M |
| May take all time with one shrewd lyric burst | N |
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| Be reverend and know | I |
| Ill shall not last or waste the plough euml d land | O |
| Or creeds sting timid souls and naught at all | P |
| Whatever else befall | P |
| Can keep us from the hollow of God's hand | O |
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| Let trick of words be past | Q |
| Strict with the thought unfearful of the form | R |
| So shall you find the way and hold it fast | Q |
| The world hear at the last | Q |
| The horns of morning sound above the storm | R |
Lizette Woodworth Reese
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