Answers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACCDDEEB FBFGGHHCCB IBIJJKLMMB NBNOOPPOOB QBQBBRRIIB| What is the end of each man's toil | A |
| Brother O Brother | B |
| A handful of dust in a bit of soil | A |
| His name forgotten as centuries roll | C |
| Though blazoned to day on Glory's scroll | C |
| For the lordliest work of brain or hand | D |
| Is only an imprint made on sand | D |
| When the tidal wave sweeps over the shore | E |
| It is there no more | E |
| Brother my Brother | B |
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| Then what is the use of striving at all | F |
| Brother O Brother | B |
| Because each effort or great or small | F |
| Is a step on the long long road that leads | G |
| To the Kingdom of Growth on the River of Deeds | G |
| And that is the kingdom no man can gain | H |
| Till he uses his hand and his mind and brain | H |
| And when he has used them and learned control | C |
| He finds his soul | C |
| Brother my Brother | B |
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| And after he finds it what is the end | I |
| Brother O Brother | B |
| Upward ever its course and trend | I |
| For this is the purpose and aim and plan | J |
| To seek in the soul for the Super man | J |
| The man who is conscious that Heaven is near | K |
| A bulletin bearer from There to Here | L |
| Finding God dwells in the spirit within | M |
| Where He ever has been | M |
| Brother my Brother | B |
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| And what will the God man do when He comes | N |
| Brother O Brother | B |
| He will better the world or in courts or slums | N |
| He will do in gladness his nearest duty | O |
| He will teach the religion of love and beauty | O |
| In field or factory mine or mart | P |
| While He tells the world of the larger part | P |
| And the wider life that is yet to be | O |
| When spirit is free | O |
| Brother my Brother | B |
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| When spirit is free then where will it go | Q |
| Brother O Brother | B |
| Its uttermost summit no man may know | Q |
| For it goes up to God in His holy Tower | B |
| To gather more knowledge and force and power | B |
| Like a ray of the sun it shall shine again | R |
| To brighten new planets and races of men | R |
| Life had no beginning life has no end | I |
| Brother and friend | I |
| Brother my Brother | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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