Poetry For Supper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD ECFGHIJ KL KM NOPQ R| 'Listen now verse should be as natural | A |
| As the small tuber that feeds on muck | B |
| And grows slowly from obtuse soil | C |
| To the white flower of immortal beauty ' | D |
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| 'Natural hell What was it Chaucer | E |
| Said once about the long toil | C |
| That goes like blood to the poem's making | F |
| Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls | G |
| Limp as bindweed if it break at all | H |
| Life's iron crust Man you must sweat | I |
| And rhyme your guts taut if you'd build | J |
| Your verse a ladder ' | - |
| 'You speak as though | K |
| No sunlight ever surprised the mind | L |
| Groping on its cloudy path ' | - |
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| 'Sunlight's a thing that needs a window | K |
| Before it enter a dark room | M |
| Windows don't happen ' | - |
| So two old poets | N |
| Hunched at their beer in the low haze | O |
| Of an inn parlour while the talk ran | P |
| Noisily by them glib with prose | Q |
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| Submitted by Andrew Mayers | R |
Ronald Stuart Thomas
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