Commercial Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIJ EKLK LEME NOPO QER STUT VCNC| Gross with protruding ears | A |
| Sleek hair brisk glance fleshy and yet alert | B |
| Red full and satisfied | C |
| Cased in obtuseness confident not to be hurt | B |
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| He sits at a little table | D |
| In the crowded congenial glare and noise jingling | E |
| Coin in his pocket sips | F |
| His glass with hard eye impudently singling | E |
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| A woman here and there | G |
| Women and men they are all priced in his thought | H |
| All commodities staked | I |
| In the market sooner or later sold and bought | J |
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| 'Were I he ' you are thinking | E |
| You with the dreamer's forehead and pure eyes | K |
| 'What should I lose All | L |
| All that is worthy the striving for all my prize | K |
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| 'All the truth of me all | L |
| Life that is wonder pity and fear requiring | E |
| Utter joy utter pain | M |
| From the heart that the infinite hurts with deep desiring | E |
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| 'Why is it I am not he | N |
| Chance The grace of God The mystery's plan | O |
| He too is human stuff | P |
| A kneading of the old brotherly slime of man | O |
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| 'Am I a lover of men | Q |
| And turn abhorring as from fat slug or snake | E |
| Lives obstinate in me too | R |
| Something the power of angels could not unmake ' | - |
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| O self questioner None | S |
| Unlocks your answer Steadily look nor flinch | T |
| This belongs to your kind | U |
| And knows its aim and fails not itself at a pinch | T |
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| It is here in the world and works | V |
| Not done with yet Up then let the test be tried | C |
| Dare your uttermost be | N |
| Completely and of your own like him be justified | C |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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