The Mind-s Games Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPEAAQRSTAQ TDUBVOWXYYYZ| If a man can say of his life or | A |
| any moment of his life There is | B |
| nothing more to be desired his state | C |
| becomes like that told in the famous | D |
| double sonnet but without the | E |
| sonnet s restrictions Let him go look | F |
| at the river flowing or the bank | G |
| of late flowers there will be one | H |
| small fly still among the petals | I |
| in whose gauzy wings raised above | J |
| its back a rainbow shines The world | K |
| to him is radiant and even the fact | L |
| of poverty is wholly without despair | M |
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| So it seems until these rouse | N |
| to him pictures of the systematically | O |
| starved for a purpose at the mind s | P |
| proposal What good then the | E |
| light winged fly the flower or | A |
| the river too foul to drink of or | A |
| even to bathe in The story building | Q |
| beyond the ocean that a rocket | R |
| will span for destruction in a matter | S |
| of minutes but will not | T |
| bring him in a century food or | A |
| relief of any sort from his suffering | Q |
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| The world too much with us Rot | T |
| the world is not half enough with us | D |
| the rot of a potato with | U |
| a healthy skin a rot that is | B |
| never revealed till we are about to | V |
| eat and it revolts us Beauty | O |
| Beauty should make us paupers | W |
| should blind us rob us for it | X |
| does not feed the sufferer but makes | Y |
| his suffering a fly blown putrescence | Y |
| and ourselves decay unless | Y |
| the ecstasy be general | Z |
William Carlos Williams
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