Patience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBDD AEFFEDD AGHHGDD AIJJIKD| Be patient with you | A |
| When the stooping sky | B |
| Leans down upon the hills | C |
| And tenderly as one who soothing stills | C |
| An anguish gathers earth to lie | B |
| Embraced and girdled Do the sun filled men | D |
| Feel patience then | D |
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| Be patient with you | A |
| When the snow girt earth | E |
| Cracks to let through a spurt | F |
| Of sudden green and from the muddy dirt | F |
| A snowdrop leaps how mark its worth | E |
| To eyes frost hardened and do weary men | D |
| Feel patience then | D |
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| Be patient with you | A |
| When pain's iron bars | G |
| Their rivets tighten stern | H |
| To bend and break their victims as they turn | H |
| Hopeless there stand the purple jars | G |
| Of night to spill oblivion Do these men | D |
| Feel patience then | D |
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| Be patient with you | A |
| You My sun and moon | I |
| My basketful of flowers | J |
| My money bag of shining dreams My hours | J |
| Windless and still of afternoon | I |
| You are my world and I your citizen | K |
| What meaning can have patience then | D |
Amy Lowell
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