Not All The Singers Of A Thousand Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCABDE FGHIFH| Not all the singers of a thousand years | A |
| Can open English prisons No Though hell | B |
| Opened for Tracian Orpheus now the spell | B |
| Of song and art is powerless as the tears | C |
| That love has shed You that were full of fears | A |
| And mean self love shall live to know full well | B |
| That you yourselves not he were pitiable | D |
| When you met mercy's voice with frowns or jeers | E |
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| And did you ask who signed the plea with you | F |
| Fools It was signed already with the sign | G |
| Of great dead men of God like Socrates | H |
| Shakespeare and Plato and the Florentine | I |
| Who conquered form And all your pretty crew | F |
| Once and once only might have stood with these | H |
Lord Alfred Douglas
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