Popularity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCB A DCDCD A EFEFE G HIHI G JKJKJ G LMNML G OPQPO G RJRJR L PLSLS L JTJTJ L GLGLG L UJUJU L LVLVL LUJ| I | A |
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| Stand still true poet that you are | B |
| I know you let me try and draw you | C |
| Some night you'll fail us when afar | B |
| You rise remember one man saw you | C |
| Knew you and named a star | B |
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| II | A |
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| My star God's glow worm Why extend | D |
| That loving hand of his which leads you | C |
| Yet locks you safe from end to end | D |
| Of this dark world unless he needs you | C |
| just saves your light to spend | D |
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| III | A |
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| His clenched hand shall unclose at last | E |
| I know and let out all the beauty | F |
| My poet holds the future fast | E |
| Accepts the coming ages' duty | F |
| Their present for this past | E |
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| IV | G |
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| That day the earth's feast master's brow | H |
| Shall clear to God the chalice raising | I |
| Others give best at first but thou | H |
| Forever set'st our table praising | I |
| Keep'st the good wine till now '' | - |
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| V | G |
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| Meantime I'll draw you as you stand | J |
| With few or none to watch and wonder | K |
| I'll say a fisher on the sand | J |
| By Tyre the old with ocean plunder | K |
| A netful brought to land | J |
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| VI | G |
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| Who has not heard how Tyrian shells | L |
| Enclosed the blue that dye of dyes | M |
| Whereof one drop worked miracles | N |
| And coloured like Astarte's eyes | M |
| Raw silk the merchant sells | L |
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| VII | G |
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| And each bystander of them all | O |
| Could criticize and quote tradition | P |
| How depths of blue sublimed some pall | Q |
| To get which pricked a king's ambition | P |
| Worth sceptre crown and ball | O |
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| VIII | G |
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| Yet there's the dye in that rough mesh | R |
| The sea has only just o'erwhispered | J |
| Live whelks each lip's beard dripping fresh | R |
| As if they still the water's lisp heard | J |
| Through foam the rock weeds thresh | R |
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| IX | L |
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| Enough to furnish Solomon | P |
| Such hangings for his cedar house | L |
| That when gold robed he took the throne | S |
| In that abyss of blue the Spouse | L |
| Might swear his presence shone | S |
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| X | L |
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| Most like the centre spike of gold | J |
| Which burns deep in the blue bell's womb | T |
| What time with ardours manifold | J |
| The bee goes singing to her groom | T |
| Drunken and overbold | J |
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| XI | L |
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| Mere conchs not fit for warp or woof | G |
| Till cunning come to pound and squeeze | L |
| And clarify refine to proof | G |
| The liquor filtered by degrees | L |
| While the world stands aloof | G |
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| XII | L |
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| And there's the extract flasked and fine | U |
| And priced and saleable at last | J |
| And Hobbs Nobbs Stokes and Nokes combine | U |
| To paint the future from the past | J |
| Put blue into their line | U |
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| XIII | L |
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| Hobbs hints blue Straight he turtle eats | L |
| Nobbs prints blue claret crowns his cup | V |
| Nokes outdares Stokes in azure feats | L |
| Both gorge Who fished the murex up | V |
| What porridge had John Keats | L |
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| The Syrian Venus | L |
| Molluscs from which the famous Tyrian | U |
| purple dye was obtained | J |
Robert Browning
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