To A Blank Sheet Of Paper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGHG IJKJ LMNM OPQP RSTS UVWV FXYX ZA2XA2 XB2XB2| WAN VISAGED thing thy virgin leaf | A |
| To me looks more than deadly pale | B |
| Unknowing what may stain thee yet | C |
| A poem or a tale | B |
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| Who can thy unborn meaning scan | D |
| Can Seer or Sibyl read thee now | E |
| No seek to trace the fate of man | D |
| Writ on his infant brow | E |
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| Love may light on thy snowy cheek | F |
| And shake his Eden breathing plumes | G |
| Then shalt thou tell how Lelia smiles | H |
| Or Angelina blooms | G |
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| Satire may lift his bearded lance | I |
| Forestalling Time's slow moving scythe | J |
| And scattered on thy little field | K |
| Disjointed bards may writhe | J |
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| Perchance a vision of the night | L |
| Some grizzled spectre gaunt and thin | M |
| Or sheeted corpse may stalk along | N |
| Or skeleton may grin | M |
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| If it should be in pensive hour | O |
| Some sorrow moving theme I try | P |
| Ah maiden how thy tears will fall | Q |
| For all I doom to die | P |
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| But if in merry mood I touch | R |
| Thy leaves then shall the sight of thee | S |
| Sow smiles as thick on rosy lips | T |
| As ripples on the sea | S |
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| The Weekly press shall gladly stoop | U |
| To bind thee up among its sheaves | V |
| The Daily steal thy shining ore | W |
| To gild its leaden leaves | V |
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| Thou hast no tongue yet thou canst speak | F |
| Till distant shores shall hear the sound | X |
| Thou hast no life yet thou canst breathe | Y |
| Fresh life on all around | X |
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| Thou art the arena of the wise | Z |
| The noiseless battle ground of fame | A2 |
| The sky where halos may be wreathed | X |
| Around the humblest name | A2 |
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| Take then this treasure to thy trust | X |
| To win some idle reader's smile | B2 |
| Then fade and moulder in the dust | X |
| Or swell some bonfire's pile | B2 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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