The Amaranth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDHIJKJ| Ah in the night all music haunts me here | A |
| Is it for naught high Heaven cracks and yawns | B |
| And the tremendous Amaranth descends | C |
| Sweet with the glory of ten thousand dawns | B |
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| Does it not mean my God would have me say | D |
| Whether you will or no O city young | E |
| Heaven will bloom like one great flower for you | F |
| Flash and loom greatly all your marts among | E |
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| Friends I will not cease hoping though you weep | G |
| Such things I see and some of them shall come | H |
| Though now our streets are harsh and ashen gray | D |
| Though our strong youths are strident now or dumb | H |
| Friends that sweet town that wonder town shall rise | I |
| Naught can delay it Though it may not be | J |
| Just as I dream it comes at last I know | K |
| With streets like channels of an incense sea | J |
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