Like A Vocation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFG AHIFHHJ KLMFNOA PQRNBHRJASAF| Not as that dream Napoleon rumour's dread and centre | A |
| Before who's riding all the crowds divide | B |
| Who dedicates a column and withdraws | C |
| Nor as that general favourite and breezy visitor | A |
| To whom the weather and the ruins mean so much | D |
| Nor as any of those who always will be welcome | E |
| As luck or history or fun | F |
| Do not enter like that all these depart | G |
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| Claim certainly the stranger's right to pleasure | A |
| Ambassadors will surely entertain you | H |
| With knowledge of operas and men | I |
| Bankers will ask for your opinion | F |
| And the heiress' cheek lean ever so slightly towards you | H |
| The mountains and the shopkeepers accept you | H |
| And all your walks be free | J |
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| But politeness and freedom are never enough | K |
| Not for a life They lead | L |
| Up to a bed that only looks like marriage | M |
| Even the disciplined and distant admiration | F |
| For thousands who obviously want nothing | N |
| Becomes just a dowdy illness These have their moderate success | O |
| They exist in the vanishing hour | A |
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| But somewhere always nowhere particularly unusual | P |
| Almost anywhere in the landscape of water and houses | Q |
| His crying competing unsuccessfully with the cry | R |
| Of the traffic or the birds is always standing | N |
| The one who needs you that terrified | B |
| Imaginative child who only knows you | H |
| As what the uncles call a lie | R |
| But knows he has to be the future and that only | J |
| The meek inherit the earth and is neither | A |
| Charming successful nor a crowd | S |
| Alone among the noise and policies of summer | A |
| His weeping climbs towards your life like a vocation | F |
W. H. Auden
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