A Letter To A Live Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEAAFAGHIJJKJILMJ JAA NAADAO PJAQRJSMAJ IJIQAIJJJJTU

Sir since the last Elizabethan diedA
Or rather that more Paradisal museB
Blind with much light passed to the light more gloriousC
Or deeper blindness no man's hand as thineD
Has on the world's most noblest chord of songE
Struck certain magic strains Ears satiateA
With the clamorous timorous whisperings of to dayA
Thrilled to perceive once more the spacious voiceF
And serene utterance of old We heardA
With rapturous breath half held as a dreamer dreamsG
Who dares not know it dreaming lest he wakeH
The odorous amorous style of poetryI
The melancholy knocking of those linesJ
The long low soughing of pentametersJ
Or the sharp of rhyme as a bird's cryK
And the innumerable truant polysyllablesJ
Multitudinously twittering like a beeI
Fulfilled our hearts were with that music thenL
And all the evenings sighed it to the dawnM
And all the lovers heard it from all the treesJ
All of the accents upon all the normsJ
And ah the stress on the penultimateA
We never knew blank verse could have such feetA
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Where is it now Oh more than ever nowN
I sometimes think no poetry is readA
Save where some sepultured Caesura bledA
Royally incarnadining all the lineD
Is the imperial iamb laid to restA
And the young trochee having done enoughO
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Ah turn again Sing so to us who are sickP
Of seeming simple rhymes bizarre emotionsJ
Decked in the simple verses of the dayA
Infinite meaning in the little gloomQ
Irregular thoughts in stanzas regularR
Modern despair in antique meters mythsJ
Incomprehensible at eveningS
And symbols that mean nothing in the dawnM
The slow lines swell The new styles sighs The CeltA
Moans round with many voicesJ
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God to seeI
Gaunt anapaests stand up out of the verseJ
Combative accents stress where no stress should beI
Spondee on spondee iamb on choriambQ
The thrill of the all the tribrachs in the worldA
And all the vowels rising to the EI
To hear the blessed mutter of those verbsJ
Conjunctions passionate toward each other's armsJ
And epithets like amaranthine loversJ
Stretching luxuriously to the starsJ
All prouder pronouns than the dawn and allT
The thunder of the trumpets of the nounU

Rupert Brooke



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