Victor James Daley

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Amaranth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEG HIHI JKJK ELEL MNMN OPOP KOKO

ONCE a poet long agoA
Wrote a song as void of artB
As the songs that children knowA
And as pure as a child s heartB
With a sigh he threw it downC
Saying This will never shedD
Any glory or renownC
On my name when I am deadD
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I will sing a lordly songE
Men shall hear when I am goneF
Through the years sound clear and strongE
As a golden clarionG
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So this lordly song he sangH
That would gain him deathless fameI
When the death knell o er him rangH
No man even knew its nameI
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Ay and when his way he foundJ
To the place of singing soulsK
And beheld their bright heads crownedJ
With song woven aureolesK
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He stood shame faced in the throngE
For his brow of wreath was bareL
And alas his lordly songE
Sere had grown in that sweet airL
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Then all sudden a divineM
Light fell on him from afarN
And he felt the child song shineM
On his forehead like a starN
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So for ever Each and allO
Songs of passion or of mirthP
That are not heart pure shall fallO
As a sky lark s to the earthP
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But the soul s song has no boundsK
Like the voice of IsrafelO
From the heaven of heavens it soundsK
To the very hell of hellO

Victor James Daley



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