An American Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD DEDE DFDF GHGH IGIG DGDG DJDJ GGGG DKDL DMDM NLNL GGGG DGDG GDGD| The American Spirit speaks | A |
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| quot If the Led Striker call it a strike | B |
| Or the papers call it a war | C |
| They know not much what I am like | B |
| Nor what he is my Avatar quot | D |
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| Through many roads by me possessed | D |
| He shambles forth in cosmic guise | E |
| He is the Jester and the Jest | D |
| And he the Text himself applies | E |
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| The Celt is in his heart and hand | D |
| The Gaul is in his brain and nerve | F |
| Where cosmopolitanly planned | D |
| He guards the Redskin's dry reserve | F |
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| His easy unswept hearth he lends | G |
| From Labrador to Guadeloupe | H |
| Till elbowed out by sloven friends | G |
| He camps at sufferance on the stoop | H |
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| Calm eyed he scoffs at sword and crown | I |
| Or panic blinded stabs and slays | G |
| Blatant he bids the world bow down | I |
| Or cringing begs a crust of praise | G |
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| Or sombre drunk at mine and mart | D |
| He dubs his dreary brethren Kings | G |
| His hands are black with blood his heart | D |
| Leaps as a babe's at little things | G |
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| But through the shift of mood and mood | D |
| Mine ancient humour saves him whole | J |
| The cynic devil in his blood | D |
| That bids him mock his hurrying soul | J |
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| That bids him flout the Law he makes | G |
| That bids him make the Law he flouts | G |
| Till dazed by many doubts he wakes | G |
| The drumming guns that have no doubts | G |
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| That checks him foolish hot and fond | D |
| That chuckles through his deepest ire | K |
| That gilds the slough of his despond | D |
| But dims the goal of his desire | L |
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| Inopportune shrill accented | D |
| The acrid Asiatic mirth | M |
| That leaves him careless 'mid his dead | D |
| The scandal of the elder earth | M |
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| How shall he clear himself how reach | N |
| Your bar or weighed defence prefer | L |
| A brother hedged with alien speech | N |
| And lacking all interpreter | L |
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| Which knowledge vexes him a space | G |
| But while Reproof around him rings | G |
| He turns a keen untroubled face | G |
| Home to the instant need of things | G |
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| Enslaved illogical elate | D |
| He greets th' embarrassed Gods nor fears | G |
| To shake the iron hand of Fate | D |
| Or match with Destiny for beers | G |
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| Lo imperturbable he rules | G |
| Unkempt disreputable vast | D |
| And in the teeth of all the schools | G |
| I I shall save him at the last | D |
Rudyard Kipling
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