Unrest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO NDNF| A fierce unrest seethes at the core | A |
| Of all existing things | B |
| It was the eager wish to soar | A |
| That gave the gods their wings | B |
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| From what flat wastes of cosmic slime | C |
| And stung by what quick fire | D |
| Sunward the restless races climb | C |
| Men risen out of mire | E |
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| There throbs through all the worlds that are | F |
| This heart beat hot and strong | G |
| And shaken systems star by star | F |
| Awake and glow in song | G |
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| But for the urge of this unrest | H |
| These joyous spheres were mute | I |
| But for the rebel in his breast | H |
| Had man remained a brute | I |
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| When baffled lips demanded speech | J |
| Speech trembled into birth | K |
| One day the lyric word shall reach | J |
| From earth to laughing earth | K |
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| When man's dim eyes demanded light | L |
| The light he sought was born | M |
| His wish a Titan scaled the height | L |
| And flung him back the morn | M |
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| From deed to dream from dream to deed | N |
| From daring hope to hope | O |
| The restless wish the instant need | N |
| Still lashed him up the slope | O |
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| I sing no governed firmament | N |
| Cold ordered regular | D |
| I sing the stinging discontent | N |
| That leaps from star to star | F |
Don Marquis
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