Portrait Of A Boy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGGHIJIEKEKLL| After the whipping he crawled into bed | A |
| Accepting the harsh fact with no great weeping | B |
| How funny uncle's hat had looked striped red | A |
| He chuckled silently The moon came sweeping | B |
| A black frayed rag of tattered cloud before | C |
| In scorning very pure and pale she seemed | D |
| Flooding his bed with radiance On the floor | C |
| Fat motes danced He sobbed closed his eyes and dreamed | D |
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| Warm sand flowed round him Blurts of crimson light | E |
| Splashed the white grains like blood Past the cave's mouth | F |
| Shone with a large fierce splendor wildly bright | E |
| The crooked constellations of the South | F |
| Here the Cross swung and there affronting Mars | G |
| The Centaur stormed aside a froth of stars | G |
| Within great casks like wattled aldermen | H |
| Sighed of enormous feasts and cloth of gold | I |
| Glowed on the walls like hot desire Again | J |
| Beside webbed purples from some galleon's hold | I |
| A black chest bore the skull and bones in white | E |
| Above a scrawled Gunpowder By the flames | K |
| Decked out in crimson gemmed with syenite | E |
| Hailing their fellows with outrageous names | K |
| The pirates sat and diced Their eyes were moons | L |
| Doubloons they said The words crashed gold Doubloons | L |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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