Law Like Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EFEF GHIGIJ KKLLMMK NNBIB OOHH IJPPHHQRSSTT UUAAVVHHBB WWXX| Law say the gardeners is the sun | A |
| Law is the one | A |
| All gardeners obey | B |
| To morrow yesterday to day | B |
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| Law is the wisdom of the old | C |
| The impotent grandfathers feebly scold | C |
| The grandchildren put out a treble tongue | D |
| Law is the senses of the young | D |
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| Law says the priest with a priestly look | E |
| Expounding to an unpriestly people | F |
| Law is the words in my priestly book | E |
| Law is my pulpit and my steeple | F |
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| Law says the judge as he looks down his nose | G |
| Speaking clearly and most severely | H |
| Law is as I've told you before | I |
| Law is as you know I suppose | G |
| Law is but let me explain it once more | I |
| Law is The Law | J |
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| Yet law abiding scholars write | K |
| Law is neither wrong nor right | K |
| Law is only crimes | L |
| Punished by places and by times | L |
| Law is the clothes men wear | M |
| Anytime anywhere | M |
| Law is Good morning and Good night | K |
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| Others say Law is our Fate | N |
| Others say Law is our State | N |
| Others say others say | B |
| Law is no more | I |
| Law has gone away | B |
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| And always the loud angry crowd | O |
| Very angry and very loud | O |
| Law is We | H |
| And always the soft idiot softly Me | H |
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| If we dear know we know no more | I |
| Than they about the Law | J |
| If I no more than you | P |
| Know what we should and should not do | P |
| Except that all agree | H |
| Gladly or miserably | H |
| That the Law is | Q |
| And that all know this | R |
| If therefore thinking it absurd | S |
| To identify Law with some other word | S |
| Unlike so many men | T |
| I cannot say Law is again | T |
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| No more than they can we suppress | U |
| The universal wish to guess | U |
| Or slip out of our own position | A |
| Into an unconcerned condition | A |
| Although I can at least confine | V |
| Your vanity and mine | V |
| To stating timidly | H |
| A timid similarity | H |
| We shall boast anyway | B |
| Like love I say | B |
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| Like love we don't know where or why | W |
| Like love we can't compel or fly | W |
| Like love we often weep | X |
| Like love we seldom keep | X |
W. H. Auden
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