In Response Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEF GHGH IJI DKDK DLD EMEM ENEN EBE DODO PQPQ DRDR| Breakfast at the Century Club New York May | A |
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| SUCH kindness the scowl of a cynic would soften | B |
| His pulse beat its way to some eloquent words | C |
| Alas my poor accents have echoed too often | B |
| Like that Pinafore music you've some of you heard | D |
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| Do you know me dear strangers the hundredth time comer | E |
| At banquets and feasts since the days of my Spring | F |
| Ah would I could borrow one rose of my Summer | E |
| But this is a leaf of my Autumn I bring | F |
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| I look at your faces I'm sure there are some from | G |
| The three breasted mother I count as my own | H |
| You think you remember the place you have come from | G |
| But how it has changed in the years that have flown | H |
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| Unaltered 't is true is the hall we call 'Funnel ' | - |
| Still fights the 'Old South' in the battle for life | I |
| But we've opened our door to the West through the tunnel | J |
| And we've cut off Fort Hill with our Amazon knife | I |
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| You should see the new Westminster Boston has builded | D |
| Its mansions its spires its museums of arts | K |
| You should see the great dome we have gorgeously gilded | D |
| 'T is the light of our eyes 't is the joy of our hearts | K |
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| When first in his path a young asteroid found it | D |
| As he sailed through the skies with the stars in his wake | L |
| He thought 't was the sun and kept circling around it | D |
| Till Edison signalled 'You've made a mistake ' | - |
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| We are proud of our city her fast growing figure | E |
| The warp and the woof of her brain and her hands | M |
| But we're proudest of all that her heart has grown bigger | E |
| And warms with fresh blood as her girdle expands | M |
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| One lesson the rubric of conflict has taught her | E |
| Though parted awhile by war's earth rending shock | N |
| The lines that divide us are written in water | E |
| The love that unites us cut deep in the rock | N |
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| As well might the Judas of treason endeavor | E |
| To write his black name on the disk of the sun | B |
| As try the bright star wreath that binds us to sever | E |
| And blot the fair legend of 'Many in One ' | - |
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| We love You tall sister the stately the splendid | D |
| The banner of empire floats high on your towers | O |
| Yet ever in welcome your arms are extended | D |
| We share in your splendors your glory is ours | O |
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| Yes Queen of the Continent All of us own thee | P |
| The gold freighted argosies flock at thy call | Q |
| The naiads the sea nymphs have met to enthrone thee | P |
| But the Broadway of one is the Highway of all | Q |
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| I thank you Three words that can hardly be mended | D |
| Though phrases on phrases their eloquence pile | R |
| If you hear the heart's throb with their eloquence blended | D |
| And read all they mean in a sunshiny smile | R |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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