The Beggar Speaks Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFFF FGHG FIAI AA FA| What Mister Moon Said to Me | A |
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| Come eat the bread of idleness | B |
| Come sit beside the spring | C |
| Some of the flowers will keep awake | D |
| Some of the birds will sing | C |
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| Come eat the bread no man has sought | E |
| For half a hundred years | F |
| Men hurry so they have no griefs | F |
| Nor even idle tears | F |
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| They hurry so they have no loves | F |
| They cannot curse nor laugh | G |
| Their hearts die in their youth with neither | H |
| Grave nor epitaph | G |
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| My bread would make them careless | F |
| And never quite on time | I |
| Their eyelids would be heavy | A |
| Their fancies full of rhyme | I |
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| Each soul a mystic rose tree | A |
| Or a curious incense tree | A |
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| Come eat the bread ofidleness | F |
| Said Mister Moon to me | A |
Vachel Lindsay
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