The Novelist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFE FGG| Encased in talent like a uniform | A |
| The rank of every poet is well known | B |
| They can amaze us like a thunderstorm | A |
| Or die so young or live for years alone | B |
| They can dash forward like hussars but he | C |
| Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn | D |
| How to be plain and awkward how to be | C |
| One after whom none think it worth to turn | D |
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| For to achieve his lightest wish he must | E |
| Become the whole of boredom subject to | F |
| Vulgar complaints like love among the Just | E |
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| Be just among the Filthy filthy too | F |
| And in his own weak person if he can | G |
| Must suffer dully all the wrongs of Man | G |
W. H. Auden
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