I Dare Not Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBC DDDC EEEF GGGF HHHI JJJI KKKL MMML NNNO PPPQ RRRS TTTS UUUV WWWX| A | |
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| I hear strange voices in the air | B |
| My pulses leap I tear my hair | B |
| In rage rebellion and despair | B |
| Yet dare not speak | C |
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| I am for right my foes for wrong | D |
| But they are legion they are strong | D |
| And I am one amid the throng | D |
| Alone and weak | C |
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| What ear would hear me if I cried | E |
| What comrades rally to my side | E |
| What force have I to stem the tide | E |
| What right have I | F |
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| Though I should plunge in flood and flame | G |
| Though I should suffer shame and blame | G |
| The world would triumph all the same | G |
| And I should die | F |
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| Why should I join the hopeless fray | H |
| Why should I waste my little day | H |
| Oh why should I be called to pay | H |
| So vast a price | I |
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| Have courage craven soul of mine | J |
| The light within thee is divine | J |
| And others need to see it shine | J |
| Let that suffice | I |
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| Others beside thee quake and quail | K |
| Before the terrors that prevail | K |
| Thy captive kindred faint and fail | K |
| As well as thou | L |
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| But when thy lifted front they see | M |
| They will take heart and soar with thee | M |
| It is thy help to set them free | M |
| They wait for now | L |
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| Give to those silent sufferers each | N |
| What inspiration he can reach | N |
| Give righteous treason honest speech | N |
| That all may hear | O |
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| This god of custom that we dread | P |
| This social code that weighs like lead | P |
| What is it worth when all is said | P |
| What is't to fear | Q |
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| When with a faithful eye one sees | R |
| That they whose will we live to please | R |
| Crush right with might for love of ease | R |
| And selfish greed | S |
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| When infinite night and silence lower | T |
| O'er such brief span of human power | T |
| These poor conventions of an hour | T |
| Seem poor indeed | S |
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| Be brave my soul The world may frown | U |
| And its brute fashions bear thee down | U |
| But Truth will swim whate'er may drown | U |
| And Truth will live | V |
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| Be bold to speak at Truth's behest | W |
| And though thou suffer without rest | W |
| Yet still thy gain shall be the best | W |
| That life can give | X |
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