The Old Chimaeras. Old Recipts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKIK LMNM OPQP RHSH PJTJ UJVJ| THE old Chimaeras old receipts | A |
| For making happy land | B |
| The old political beliefs | C |
| Swam close before my hand | B |
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| The grand old communistic myths | D |
| In a middle state of grace | E |
| Quite dead but not yet gone to Hell | F |
| And walking for a space | E |
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| Quite dead and looking it and yet | G |
| All eagerness to show | H |
| The Social Contract forgeries | I |
| By Chatterton Rousseau | H |
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| A hundred such as these I tried | J |
| And hundreds after that | K |
| I fitted Social Theories | I |
| As one would fit a hat | K |
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| Full many a marsh fire lured me on | L |
| I reached at many a star | M |
| I reached and grasped them and behold | N |
| The stump of a cigar | M |
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| All through the sultry sweltering day | O |
| The sweat ran down my brow | P |
| The still plains heard my distant strokes | Q |
| That have been silenced now | P |
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| This way and that now up now down | R |
| I hailed full many a blow | H |
| Alas beneath my weary arm | S |
| The thicket seemed to grow | H |
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| I take the lesson wipe my brow | P |
| And throw my axe aside | J |
| And sorely wearied I go home | T |
| In the tranquil eventide | J |
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| And soon the rising moon that lights | U |
| The eve of my defeat | J |
| Shall see me sitting as of yore | V |
| By my old master's feet | J |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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