Prologue To Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGDGHICIHJKJ CLAL| Even the shrewd and bitter | A |
| Gnarled by the old world's greed | B |
| Cherished the stranger softly | C |
| Seeing his utter need | B |
| Shelter and patient hearing | D |
| These were their gifts to him | E |
| To the minstrel chanting begging | D |
| As the sunset fire grew dim | E |
| The rich said you are welcome | F |
| Yea even the rich were good | G |
| How strange that in their feasting | D |
| His songs were understood | G |
| The doors of the poor were open | H |
| The poor who had wandered too | I |
| Who slept with never a roof tree | C |
| Under the wind and dew | I |
| The minds of the poor were open | H |
| There dark mistrust was dead | J |
| They loved his wizard stories | K |
| They bought his rhymes with bread | J |
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| Those were his days of glory | C |
| Of faith in his fellow men | L |
| Therefore to day the singer | A |
| Turns beggar once again | L |
Vachel Lindsay
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