Alteram Partem Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB CDDC EFFE GBBG DBB| Or shall I say Vain word false thought | A |
| Since prudence hath her martyrs too | B |
| And Wisdom dictates not to do | B |
| Till doing shall be not for nought | B |
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| Not ours to give or lose is life | C |
| Will Nature when her brave ones fall | D |
| Remake her work or songs recall | D |
| Death's victim slain in useless strife | C |
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| That rivers flow into the sea | E |
| Is loss and waste the foolish say | F |
| Nor know that back they find their way | F |
| Unseen to where they wont to be | E |
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| Showers fall upon the hills springs flow | G |
| The river runneth still at hand | B |
| Brave men are born into the land | B |
| And whence the foolish do not know | G |
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| No no vain voice did on me fall | D |
| Peschiera when thy bridge I crost | B |
| ''Tis better to have fought and lost | B |
| Than never to have fought at all ' | - |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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