The Visionary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ AKAKLL| If fortune had not granted me | A |
| To suck the Muse's teats | B |
| I think I would have liked to be | A |
| A sweeper of the streets | B |
| And city gutters glad to groom | C |
| Have heft a bonny broom | C |
| - | |
| There as amid the crass and crush | D |
| The limousines swished by | E |
| I would have leaned upon my brush | D |
| With visionary eye | E |
| Deeming despite their loud allure | F |
| That I was rich they poor | G |
| - | |
| Aye though in garb terrestrial | H |
| To Heaven I would pray | I |
| And dream with broom celestial | H |
| I swept the Milky Way | I |
| And golden chariots would ring | J |
| And harps of Heaven sing | J |
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| And all the strumpets passing me | A |
| And heelers of the Ward | K |
| Would glorified Madonnas be | A |
| And angels of the Lord | K |
| And all the brats in gutters grim | L |
| Be rosy cherubim | L |
Robert William Service
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