For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGF HIJIKLMNL LHOHPOQRQSQ| Athlete virtuoso | A |
| Training for happiness | B |
| Bend arm and knee and seek | C |
| The body's sharp distress | D |
| For pain is pleasure's cost | E |
| Denial is route | F |
| To speech before the millions | G |
| Or personal with the flute | F |
| - | |
| The ape and great Achilles | H |
| Heavy with their fate | I |
| Batter doors down strike | J |
| Small children at the gate | I |
| Driven by love to this | K |
| As knock kneed Hegel said | L |
| To seek with a sword their peace | M |
| That the child may be taken away | N |
| From the hurly burly and fed | L |
| - | |
| Ladies and Gentlemen said | L |
| The curious Socrates | H |
| I have asked What is this life | O |
| But a childermass | H |
| As Abraham recognized | P |
| A working with the knife | O |
| At animal maid and stone | Q |
| Until we have cut down | R |
| All but the soul alone | Q |
| Through hate we guard our love | S |
| And its distinction's known | Q |
Delmore Schwartz
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For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands is a poem by Delmore Schwartz. This page includes the poem text, poet information, related topics, comments, and similar poems.