Mind And Matter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF FGFGHH| Great was his soul and high his aim | A |
| He viewed the world and he could trace | B |
| A lofty plan to leave his name | A |
| Immortal 'mid the human race | B |
| But as he planned and as he worked | C |
| The fungus spore within him lurked | C |
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| Though dark the present and the past | D |
| The future seemed a sunlit thing | E |
| Still ever deeper and more vast | D |
| The changes that he hoped to bring | E |
| His was the will to dare and do | F |
| But still the stealthy fungus grew | F |
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| Alas the plans that came to nought | F |
| Alas the soul that thrilled in vain | G |
| The sunlit future that he sought | F |
| Was but a mirage of the brain | G |
| Where now the wit Where now the will | H |
| The fungus is the master still | H |
Arthur Conan Doyle
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