The Wise Brothers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCDDC A EECFFC A GGCHHC| FIRST VOICE | A |
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| So long adrift so fast aground | B |
| What foam and ruin have we found | B |
| We the Wise Brothers | C |
| Could heaven and earth be framed amiss | D |
| That we should land in fine like this | D |
| We and no others | C |
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| SECOND VOICE | A |
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| Convoyed by what accurs d thing | E |
| Made we this evil reckoning | E |
| We the Wise Brothers | C |
| And if the failure be complete | F |
| Why look we forward from defeat | F |
| We and what others | C |
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| THIRD VOICE | A |
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| Blown far from harbors once in sight | G |
| May we not going far go right | G |
| We the Wise Brothers | C |
| Companioned by the whirling spheres | H |
| Have we no more than what appears | H |
| We and all others | C |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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