The Poet-s Lot Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE FFFF GHIH FJFJ KELE FMFM| WHAT is a poet's love | A |
| To write a girl a sonnet | B |
| To get a ring or some such thing | C |
| And fustianize upon it | B |
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| What is a poet's fame | D |
| Sad hints about his reason | E |
| And sadder praise from garreteers | F |
| To be returned in season | E |
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| Where go the poet's lines | F |
| Answer ye evening tapers | F |
| Ye auburn locks ye golden curls | F |
| Speak from your folded papers | F |
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| Child of the ploughshare smile | G |
| Boy of the counter grieve not | H |
| Though muses round thy trundle bed | I |
| Their broidered tissue weave not | H |
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| The poet's future holds | F |
| No civic wreath above him | J |
| Nor slated roof nor varnished chaise | F |
| Nor wife nor child to love him | J |
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| Maid of the village inn | K |
| Who workest woe on satin | E |
| The grass in black the graves in green | L |
| The epitaph in Latin | E |
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| Trust not to them who say | F |
| In stanzas they adore thee | M |
| Oh rather sleep in churchyard clay | F |
| With urn and cherub o'er thee | M |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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