Words Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DEDEEFGFG BHBHHIAIA JKKKKALAL IAMAANANA KAKAAOPQP| Is it not brave to be a king Techelles | A |
| Usumcasane and Theridamas | A |
| Is it not passing brave to be a king | B |
| And ride in triumph through Persepolis MARLOWE | C |
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| Bring the great words that scourge the thundering line | D |
| With lust and slaughter words that reek of doom | E |
| And the lost battle and the ruined shrine | D |
| Words dire and black as midnight on a tomb | E |
| Hushed speech of waters on the lip of gloom | E |
| Huge sounds of death and plunder in the night | F |
| Words whose vast plumes above the ages meet | G |
| Girdling the lost dark centuries in their flight | F |
| The slave of their unfetterable feet | G |
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| Bring words as pure as rills of earliest Spring | B |
| In some far cranny of the hillside born | H |
| To stitch against the earth's green habiting | B |
| Words lonely as the long blue fields of morn | H |
| Words on the wistful lyre of winds forlorn | H |
| To the sad ear of grief from distance blown | I |
| Thin bleat of fawn and airy babble of birds | A |
| Sounds of bright water slipping on the stone | I |
| Where the thrilled fountain pipes to woodland words | A |
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| Bring passionate words from noontide's slumber roused | J |
| To slake the amorous lips of love with fruit | K |
| Dripping with honey and with syrups drowsed | K |
| To draw bee murmurs from the dreaming lute | K |
| Words gold and mad and headlong in pursuit | K |
| Of laughter words that are too sweet to say | A |
| And fade unsaid upon some rose's mouth | L |
| Words soft as winds that ever blow one way | A |
| The summer way the long way from the south | L |
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| For such words have high lineage and were known | I |
| Of Milton once whose heart on theirs still beats | A |
| Marlowe hurled forth huge stars to make them crown | M |
| They are stained still with the dying lips of Keats | A |
| As queen they trod the cloak in Shakespeare's streets | A |
| Pale hands of Shelley gently guard their flame | N |
| Chatterton's heart was burst upon their spears | A |
| Their dynasty unbroken and their name | N |
| Music in men's mouths for all men's ears | A |
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| But now they are lost their lordliest 'scutcheon stained | K |
| Upon their ruined walls no trumpet rings | A |
| Their shrines defiled their sacraments profaned | K |
| Men crown the crow they have given the jackal wings | A |
| Slaves wear the peplum beggars ride as kings | A |
| They couple foolish words and look for birth | O |
| Of mighty emperor Christ or Avatar | P |
| They mate with slaves from whom no king comes forth | Q |
| No child is theirs who follow not the Star | P |
Muriel Stuart
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