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Of Modern Poetry Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF GHIJKLMHNOPQRASTUVWX YZ

The poem of the mind in the act of findingA
What will suffice It has not always hadB
To find the scene was set it repeated whatC
Was in the scriptD
Then the theatre was changedE
To something else Its past was a souvenirF
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It has to be living to learn the speech of the placeG
It has to face the men of the time and to meetH
The women of the time It has to think about warI
And it has to find what will suffice It hasJ
To construct a new stage It has to be on that stageK
And like an insatiable actor slowly andL
With meditation speak words that in the earM
In the delicatest ear of the mind repeatH
Exactly that which it wants to hear at the soundN
Of which an invisible audience listensO
Not to the play but to itself expressedP
In an emotion as of two people as of twoQ
Emotions becoming one The actor isR
A metaphysician in the dark twangingA
An instrument twanging a wiry string that givesS
Sounds passing through sudden rightnesses whollyT
Containing the mind below which it cannot descendU
Beyond which it has no will to riseV
It mustW
Be the finding of a satisfaction and mayX
Be of a man skating a woman dancing a womanY
Combing The poem of the act of the mindZ

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