An Argument Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEFGFHIJIGKLKGMNM O PQRQSTUTVUWUXYZYA2KB 2KC2RD2RE2KF2K| I THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS | A |
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| We find your soft Utopias as white | B |
| As new cut bread and dull as life in cells | C |
| O scribes who dare forget how wild we are | D |
| How human breasts adore alarum bells | C |
| You house us in a hive of prigs and saints | E |
| Communal frugal clean and chaste by law | F |
| I'd rather brood in bloody Elsinore | G |
| Or be Lear's fool straw crowned amid the straw | F |
| Promise us all our share in Agincourt | H |
| Say that our clerks shall venture scorns and death | I |
| That future ant hills will not be too good | J |
| For Henry Fifth or Hotspur or Macbeth | I |
| Promise that through to morrow's spirit war | G |
| Man's deathless soul will hack and hew its way | K |
| Each flaunting Caesar climbing to his fate | L |
| Scorning the utmost steps of yesterday | K |
| Never a shallow jester any more | G |
| Let not Jack Falstaff spill the ale in vain | M |
| Let Touchstone set the fashions for the wise | N |
| And Ariel wreak his fancies through the rain | M |
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| II THE RHYMER'S REPLY INCENSE AND SPLENDOR | O |
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| Incense and Splendor haunt me as I go | P |
| Though my good works have been alas too few | Q |
| Though I do naught High Heaven comes down to me | R |
| And future ages pass in tall review | Q |
| I see the years to come as armies vast | S |
| Stalking tremendous through the fields of time | T |
| MAN is unborn To morrow he is born | U |
| Flame like to hover o'er the moil and grime | T |
| Striving aspiring till the shame is gone | V |
| Sowing a million flowers where now we mourn | U |
| Laying new precious pavements with a song | W |
| Founding new shrines the good streets to adorn | U |
| I have seen lovers by those new built walls | X |
| Clothed like the dawn in orange gold and red | Y |
| Eyes flashing forth the glory light of love | Z |
| Under the wreaths that crowned each royal head | Y |
| Life was made greater by their sweetheart prayers | A2 |
| Passion was turned to civic strength that day | K |
| Piling the marbles making fairer domes | B2 |
| With zeal that else had burned bright youth away | K |
| I have seen priestesses of life go by | C2 |
| Gliding in samite through the incense sea | R |
| Innocent children marching with them there | D2 |
| Singing in flowered robes THE EARTH IS FREE | R |
| While on the fair deep carved unfinished towers | E2 |
| Sentinels watched in armor night and day | K |
| Guarding the brazier fires of hope and dream | F2 |
| Wild was their peace and dawn bright their array | K |
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