The Impact Of A Dollar Upon The Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDE FFGHIFHJBFKLFMFFFThe impact of a dollar upon the heart | A |
Smiles warm red light | B |
Sweeping from the hearth rosily upon the white table | C |
With the hanging cool velvet shadows | D |
Moving softly upon the door | E |
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The impact of a million dollars | F |
Is a crash of flunkeys | F |
And yawning emblems of Persia | G |
Cheeked against oak France and a sabre | H |
The outcry of old beauty | I |
Whored by pimping merchants | F |
To submission before wine and chatter | H |
Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men | J |
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light | B |
Into their woof their lives | F |
The rug of an honest bear | K |
Under the feet of a cryptic slave | L |
Who speaks always of baubles | F |
Forgetting state multitude work and state | M |
Champing and mouthing of hats | F |
Making ratful squeak of hats | F |
Hats | F |
Stephen Crane
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