At The Funeral Of A Minor Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHAIAJKAALAMNOA CPAOAOFQAAANROOAASTA COPOAUOVAAOTOWAAXAOO YPOUOOOAOne of the Bearers Soliloquizes | A |
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Room in your heart for him O Mother Earth | B |
Who loved each flower and leaf that made you fair | C |
And sang your praises in verses manifold | D |
And delicate with here and there a line | E |
From end to end in blossom like a bough | F |
The May breathes on so rich it was Some thought | G |
The workmanship more costly than the thing | H |
Moulded or carved as in those ornaments | A |
Found at Myc ne And yet Nature's self | I |
Works in this wise upon a blade of grass | A |
Or what small note she lends the woodland thrush | J |
Lavishing endless patience He was born | K |
Artist not artisan which some few saw | A |
And many dreamed not As he wrote no odes | A |
When Croesus wedded or M cenas died | L |
And gave no breath to civic feasts and shows | A |
He missed the glare that gilds more facile men | M |
A twilight poet groping quite alone | N |
Belated in a sphere where every nest | O |
Is emptied of its music and its wings | A |
Not great his gift yet we can poorly spare | C |
Even his slight perfection in an age | P |
Of limping triolets and tame rondeaux | A |
He had at least ideals though unreached | O |
And heard far off immortal harmonies | A |
Such as fall coldly on our ear to day | O |
The mighty Zolastic Movement now | F |
Engrosses us a miasmatic breath | Q |
Blown from the slums We paint life as it is | A |
The hideous side of it with careful pains | A |
Making a god of the dull Commonplace | A |
For have we not the old gods overthrown | N |
And set up strangest idols We would clip | R |
Imagination's wing and kill delight | O |
Our sole art being to leave nothing out | O |
That renders art offensive Not for us | A |
Madonnas leaning from their starry thrones | A |
Ineffable nor any heaven wrought dream | S |
Of sculptor or of poet we prefer | T |
Such nightmare visions as in morbid brains | A |
Take shape and substance thoughts that taint the air | C |
And make all life unlovely Will it last | O |
Beauty alone endures from age to age | P |
From age to age endures handmaid of God | O |
Poets who walk with her on earth go hence | A |
Bearing a talisman You bury one | U |
With his hushed music in some Potter's Field | O |
The snows and rains blot out his very name | V |
As he from life seems blotted through Time's glass | A |
Slip the invisible and magic sands | A |
That mark the century then falls a day | O |
The world is suddenly conscious of a flower | T |
Imperishable ever to be prized | O |
Sprung from the mould of a forgotten grave | W |
'T is said the seeds wrapt up among the balms | A |
And hieroglyphics of Egyptian kings | A |
old strange vitality and planted grow | X |
After the lapse of thrice a thousand years | A |
Some day perchance some unregarded note | O |
Of our poor friend here some sweet minor chord | O |
That failed to lure our more accustomed ear | Y |
Way witch the fancy of an unborn age | P |
Who knows since seeds have such tenacity | O |
Meanwhile he's dead with scantiest laurel won | U |
And little of our Ninteenth Century gold | O |
So take him Earth and this his mortal part | O |
With that shrewd alchemy thou hast transmute | O |
To flower and leaf in thine unending springs | A |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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