A Song Of Singers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD AEAEDD ABABDD BBFCFGGC FFHHII FFJJKKLLDD| Singers all along the street | A |
| Singing every kind of song | B |
| One man's song is honey sweet | A |
| One man's song is hammer strong | B |
| Yet however sweet the singing | C |
| However strong the hammer swinging | C |
| All the bees are round that honey | D |
| Which the vulgar world calls money | D |
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| Singers all along the street | A |
| One sings Love and one sings Death | E |
| Roses sings one and little feet | A |
| And one sings wine with fevered breath | E |
| Yet all the bees are round that honey | D |
| Which the vulgar world calls money | D |
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| Singers singing down the street | A |
| I believe there is a song | B |
| Could you sing it that would beat | A |
| All the sweet and all the strong | B |
| Just a simple song of pity | D |
| 'Mid the iron of the city | D |
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| Singers all the street along | B |
| There is still another song | B |
| All the world is waiting breathless | F |
| Just to hear some poet singing | C |
| Song of something gay and deathless | F |
| 'Mid the grinding dark endeavour | G |
| That goes on and on for ever | G |
| Something more than mere words bringing | C |
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| Something more than butterflies | F |
| Or the sugared ancient lies | F |
| Something with the ring of truth | H |
| And the majesty of youth | H |
| Something singing all is well | I |
| In the blackest pit of hell | I |
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| O we are so tired of birds | F |
| Of rainbows and the love sick words | F |
| Sing us but some manly tune | J |
| Leaving out the rising moon | J |
| Sing the song of Hope Eternal | K |
| In the face of Facts Infernal | K |
| And make your singing somehow prove it | L |
| Faith so firm no doubt can move it | L |
| Then the bees will leave the honey | D |
| Which the vulgar world calls money | D |
Richard Le Gallienne
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