Two Octaves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHI A JKLMNOPQ| I | A |
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| Not by the grief that stuns and overwhelms | B |
| All outward recognition of revealed | C |
| And righteous omnipresence are the days | D |
| Of most of us affrighted and diseased | E |
| But rather by the common snarls of life | F |
| That come to test us and to strengthen us | G |
| In this the prentice age of discontent | H |
| Rebelliousness faint heartedness and shame | I |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| When through hot fog the fulgid sun looks down | J |
| Upon a stagnant earth where listless men | K |
| Laboriously dawdle curse and sweat | L |
| Disqualified unsatisfied inert | M |
| It seems to me somehow that God himself | N |
| Scans with a close reproach what I have done | O |
| Counts with an unphrased patience my arrears | P |
| And fathoms my unprofitable thoughts | Q |
Edwin Arlington Robinson
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