Faint Yet Pursuing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBEBFEFGGHIHI BIJJKKBILIBLGGMNNOPB| Heroic Good target for which the young | A |
| Dream in their dreams that every bow is strung | A |
| And missing sigh | B |
| Unfruitful or as disbelievers die | B |
| Thee having miss'd I will not so revolt | C |
| But lowlier shoot my bolt | C |
| And lowlier still if still I may not reach | D |
| And my proud stomach teach | D |
| That less than highest is good and may be high | B |
| And even walk in life's uneven way | E |
| Though to have dreamt of flight and not to fly | B |
| Be strange and sad | F |
| Is not a boon that's given to all who pray | E |
| If this I had | F |
| I'd envy none | G |
| Nay trod I straight for one | G |
| Year month or week | H |
| Should Heaven withdraw and Satan me amerce | I |
| Of power and joy still would I seek | H |
| Another victory with a like reverse | I |
| Because the good of victory does not die | B |
| As dies the failure's curse | I |
| And what we have to gain | J |
| Is not one battle but a weary life's campaign | J |
| Yet meaner lot being sent | K |
| Should more than me content | K |
| Yea if I lie | B |
| Among vile shards though born for silver wings | I |
| In the strong flight and feathers gold | L |
| Of whatsoever heavenward mounts and sings | I |
| I must by admiration so comply | B |
| That there I should my own delight behold | L |
| Yea though I sin each day times seven | G |
| And dare not lift the fearfullest eyes to Heaven | G |
| Thanks must I give | M |
| Because that seven times are not eight or nine | N |
| And that my darkness is all mine | N |
| And that I live | O |
| Within this oak shade one more minute even | P |
| Hearing the winds their Maker magnify | B |
Coventry Patmore
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