Before Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABCADEFDFE| Life Austere arbiter of each man's fate | A |
| By whom he learns that Nature's steadfast laws | B |
| Are as decrees immutable O pause | B |
| Your even forward march Not yet too late | A |
| Teach me the needed lesson when to wait | A |
| Inactive as a ship when no wind draws | B |
| To stretch the loosened cordage One implores | C |
| Thy clemency whose wilfulness innate | A |
| Has gone uncurbed and roughshod while the years | D |
| Have lengthened into decades now distressed | E |
| He knows no rule by which to move or stay | F |
| And teased with restlessness and desperate fears | D |
| He dares not watch in silence thy wise way | F |
| Bringing about results none could have guessed | E |
Amy Lowell
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