Deeds Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBADDEFFE| 'Tis well with words oh masters ye have sought | A |
| To turn men's eyes yearning to the great and true | B |
| Yet first take heed to what your own hands do | B |
| By deeds not words the souls of men are taught | A |
| Good lives alone are fruitful they are caught | C |
| Into the fountain of all life wherethrough | B |
| Men's souls that drink are broken or made new | B |
| Like drops of heavenly elixir fraught | A |
| With the clear essence of eternal youth | D |
| Even one little deed of weak untruth | D |
| Is like a drop of quenchless venom cast | E |
| A liquid thread into life's feeding stream | F |
| Woven forever with its crystal gleam | F |
| Bearing the seed of death and woe at last | E |
Archibald Lampman
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