To A Poet - (to Edmund Gosse) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GAGA HIJI CKCK LFLF| Still towards the steep Parnassian way | A |
| The moon led pilgrims wend | B |
| Ah who of all that start to day | A |
| Shall ever reach the end | B |
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| Year after year a dream fed band | C |
| That scorn the vales below | D |
| And scorn the fatness of the land | C |
| To win those heights of snow | D |
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| Leave barns and kine and flocks behind | E |
| And count their fortune fair | F |
| If they a dozen leaves may bind | E |
| Of laurel in their hair | F |
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| Like us dear Poet once you trod | G |
| That sweet moon smitten way | A |
| With mouth of silver sought the god | G |
| All night and all the day | A |
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| Sought singing till in rosy fire | H |
| The white Apollo came | I |
| And touched your brow and wreathed your lyre | J |
| And named you by his name | I |
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| And led you loving by the hand | C |
| To those grave laurelled bowers | K |
| Where keep your high immortal band | C |
| Your high immortal hours | K |
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| Strait was the way thorn set and long | L |
| Ah tell us shining there | F |
| Is fame as wonderful as song | L |
| And laurels in your hair | F |
Richard Le Gallienne
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