Finality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCB DEDFFE GHGIIH JKJLMK JHJNNH OPOQQP RIRSSI TUVWWF XOXYYO GZLA2A2B2 C2D2C2E2E2D2 NKNBBK| A HEAVY and desolate sense of life | A |
| Is all the Past makes mine and still | B |
| A cold contempt of Fortune s strife | A |
| Despite the dread | C |
| Of want of bread | C |
| Numbs clogs like ice my weary will | B |
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| How little is there on the earth | D |
| That I at length can venerate | E |
| I see at most one world wide dearth | D |
| Of wisdom free | F |
| True piety | F |
| Of noble love of honest hate | E |
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| With little hope of higher good | G |
| For Man for me of earthly bliss | H |
| Yet I withstand as I ve withstood | G |
| The evil plan | I |
| Man teaches man | I |
| Of valuing all things amiss | H |
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| There s nothing under the godlike sun | J |
| Worth loving to be bought or sold | K |
| The only wealth by labour won | J |
| Besides the food | L |
| Supplying blood | M |
| Is human excellence not gold | K |
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| All other things designed or done | J |
| Their only real value miss | H |
| But in so far as this each one | J |
| And all sustain | N |
| Adorn explain | N |
| Secure and enter into this | H |
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| Beauty itself were nothing no | O |
| But for Love s golden heart and eye | P |
| Nay Truth were dead but for the glow | O |
| Around its shrine | Q |
| Of minds divine | Q |
| Of martyr minds that may not die | P |
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| Why pile we stone on stone to raise | R |
| Jail fane or public hall why plan | I |
| Fortress or tower for future days | R |
| Yet leave unbuilt | S |
| To wrong or guilt | S |
| That nobler pile the Mind of Man | I |
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| With finer wool the land to dower | T |
| Behold how strongly we are moved | U |
| Even while a Nation s thinking power | V |
| Unvalued yet | W |
| Unnamed we let | W |
| All bestial grow being unimprov d | F |
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| Can then the seed in God s right hand | X |
| Of Happiness when shed below | O |
| Find fitting nurture in a land | X |
| Of wilding soil | Y |
| And selfish toil | Y |
| I tell ye Time shall answer No | O |
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| I tell ye that all public good | G |
| All individual worth and peace | Z |
| All youthful nobleness of mood | L |
| Like rose leaves thin | A2 |
| Must wither in | A2 |
| The sordid breath of days like these | B2 |
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| O for a prophet s tongue to teach | C2 |
| The truths I cannot else reveal | D2 |
| O for a conqueror s power to reach | C2 |
| The holy aim | E2 |
| That doth inflame | E2 |
| And nerve me with a martyr s zeal | D2 |
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| Tis vain the sacred wish is vain | N |
| Men but renew the strifes of old | K |
| But value with a greed insane | N |
| All devilish skill | B |
| All splendid ill | B |
| That fetters Truth with chains of gold | K |
Charles Harpur
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