Applause Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBCDEDEDD| I hold it one of the sad certain laws | A |
| Which makes our failures sometime seem more kind | B |
| Than that success which brings sure loss behind | B |
| True greatness dies when sounds the world's applause | A |
| Fame blights the object it would bless because | A |
| Weighed down with men's expectancy the mind | B |
| Can no more soar to those far heights and find | B |
| That freedom which its inspiration was | C |
| When once we listen to its noisy cheers | D |
| Or hear the populace' approval then | E |
| We catch no more the music of the spheres | D |
| Or walk with gods and angels but with men | E |
| Till impotent from our self conscious fears | D |
| The plaudits of the world turn into sneers | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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