An Impromptu Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCC DDEE FFGG FFHH IIJK| Not premeditated | A |
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| THE clock has struck noon ere it thrice tell the hours | B |
| We shall meet round the table that blushes with flowers | B |
| And I shall blush deeper with shame driven blood | C |
| That I came to the banquet and brought not a bud | C |
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| Who cares that his verse is a beggar in art | D |
| If you see through its rags the full throb of his heart | D |
| Who asks if his comrade is battered and tanned | E |
| When he feels his warm soul in the clasp of his hand | E |
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| No be it an epic or be it a line | F |
| The Boys will all love it because it is mine | F |
| I sung their last song on the morn of the day | G |
| That tore from their lives the last blossom of May | G |
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| It is not the sunset that glows in the wine | F |
| But the smile that beams over it makes it divine | F |
| I scatter these drops and behold as they fall | H |
| The day star of memory shines through them all | H |
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| And these are the last they are drops that I stole | I |
| From a wine press that crushes the life from the soul | I |
| But they ran through my heart and they sprang to my brain | J |
| Till our twentieth sweet summer was smiling again | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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