An Exhortation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDDCC EFEFGDDGG HIHIJKKJJ| Chameleons feed on light and air | A |
| Poets' food is love and fame | B |
| If in this wide world of care | A |
| Poets could but find the same | B |
| With as little toil as they | C |
| Would they ever change their hue | D |
| As the light chameleons do | D |
| Suiting it to every ray | C |
| Twenty times a day | C |
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| Poets are on this cold earth | E |
| As chameleons might be | F |
| Hidden from their early birth | E |
| In a cave beneath the sea | F |
| Where light is chameleons change | G |
| Where love is not poets do | D |
| Fame is love disguised if few | D |
| Find either never think it strange | G |
| That poets range | G |
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| Yet dare not stain with wealth or power | H |
| A poet's free and heavenly mind | I |
| If bright chameleons should devour | H |
| Any food but beams and wind | I |
| They would grow as earthly soon | J |
| As their brother lizards are | K |
| Children of a sunnier star | K |
| Spirits from beyond the moon | J |
| O refuse the boon | J |
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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