To The Prophetic Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IFIF JBJB KLKL| What are these bustlers at the gate | A |
| Of now or yesterday | B |
| These playthings in the hand of Fate | A |
| That pass and point no way | B |
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| These clinging bubbles whose mock fires | C |
| For ever dance and gleam | D |
| Vain foam that gathers and expires | C |
| Upon the world's dark stream | D |
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| These gropers betwixt right and wrong | E |
| That seek an unknown goal | F |
| Most ignorant when they seem most strong | E |
| What are they then O Soul | F |
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| That thou shouldst covet overmuch | G |
| A tenderer range of heart | H |
| And yet at every dreamed of touch | G |
| So tremulously start | H |
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| Thou with that hatred ever new | I |
| Of the world's base control | F |
| That vision of the large and true | I |
| That quickness of the soul | F |
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| Nay for they are not of thy kind | J |
| But in a rarer clay | B |
| God dowered thee with an alien mind | J |
| Thou canst not be as they | B |
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| Be strong therefore resume thy load | K |
| And forward stone by stone | L |
| Go singing though the glorious road | K |
| Thou travellest alone | L |
Archibald Lampman
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