Barter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD AEFEGG BHBIBB| Life has loveliness to sell | A |
| All beautiful and splendid things | B |
| Blue waves whitened on a cliff | C |
| Soaring fire that sways and sings | B |
| And children's faces looking up | D |
| Holding wonder like a cup | D |
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| Life has loveliness to sell | A |
| Music like a curve of gold | E |
| Scent of pine trees in the rain | F |
| Eyes that love you arms that hold | E |
| And for the Spirit's still delight | G |
| Holy thoughts that star the night | G |
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| Give all you have for loveliness | B |
| Buy it and never count the cost | H |
| For one white singing hour of peace | B |
| Count many a year of strife well lost | I |
| And for a breath of ecstasy | B |
| Give all you have been or could be | B |
Sara Teasdale
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Tom Linnell: My 8th grade teacher read this to us, and she was in tears by the end. We were moved to see her emotion and to realize the power of poetry in the person right in front of us. I have never forgotten that moment. I am now 76 years old and the poem speaks right to me still.
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