Poet Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

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Horatian Echo Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: AABCCB DEFGGF HHIJJI KKLMML NNODDO PPQIIQ

Omit omit my simple friendA
Still to inquire how parties tendA
Or what we fix with foreign powersB
If France and we are really friendsC
And what the Russian Czar intendsC
Is no concern of oursB
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Us not the daily quickening raceD
Of the invading populaceE
Shall draw to swell that shouldering herdF
Mourn will we not your closing hourG
Ye imbeciles in present powerG
Doom'd pompous and absurdF
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And let us bear that they debateH
Of all the engine work of stateH
Of commerce laws and policyI
The secrets of the world's machineJ
And what the rights of man may meanJ
With readier tongue than weI
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Only that with no finer artK
They cloak the troubles of the heartK
With pleasant smile let us take careL
Nor with a lighter hand disposeM
Fresh garlands of this dewy roseM
To crown Eugenia's hairL
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Of little threads our life is spunN
And he spins ill who misses oneN
But is thy fair Eugenia coldO
Yet Helen had an equal graceD
And Juliet's was as fair a faceD
And now their years are toldO
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The day approaches when we mustP
Be crumbling bones and windy dustP
And scorn us as our mistress mayQ
Her beauty will no better beI
Than the poor face she slights in theeI
When dawns that day that dayQ

Matthew Arnold



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