The Goal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADCDECFCEGFGHIEI HJEJDK LKDMLMNOPQNRPSGTUTGC UC| ON the grey levels of the plain of life | A |
| When slowly swirled | B |
| The moving hills of morning mist | C |
| Hedged in the world | B |
| While yet undared the path of toil and strife | A |
| I found a friend | D |
| Whose faith I pictured would persist | C |
| Until the end | D |
| Then peered the stooping sun across the plain | E |
| The world he kissed | C |
| In sudden glory shimmering | F |
| Flamed all the mist | C |
| The sullen Darkness carried off his slain | E |
| And straight away | G |
| Like a forefinger beckoning | F |
| The white road lay | G |
| Her hand in mine upon the path we pressed | H |
| Together shared | I |
| The flowers we plucked to find them pain | E |
| And forward fared | I |
| Till we stood radiant on the mountain crest | H |
| And still ahead | J |
| Dipping to pleasant depths of plain | E |
| The white road led | J |
| But when I urged her onward to the end | D |
| Her heart peered out | K |
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| Upon the road's unswerving leap | L |
| In dizzy doubt | K |
| Nay we have reached the highest why descend | D |
| Her lips demurred | M |
| And with us gazing at the steep | L |
| There stood a third | M |
| Her eyes clasped his in an embrace of love | N |
| Said they No more | O |
| Here on the crest is our abode | P |
| Our journey o'er | Q |
| The goal for you So leaving them above | N |
| I went alone | R |
| And still the arrow of the road | P |
| Sped on straight on | S |
| But darker and more desolate the way | G |
| Until I turned | T |
| Lo in the halo of the sun | U |
| The lovers burned | T |
| High on the mountain top Ah what if they | G |
| By passion kissed | C |
| The goal of life and love have won | U |
| And I have missed | C |
Arthur Henry Adams
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