Courage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B A A B B A C D C D C D| There is a courage a majestic thing | A |
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| That springs forth from the brow of pain full grown | B |
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| Minerva like and dares all dangers known | B |
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| And all the threatening future yet may bring | A |
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| Crowned with the helmet of great suffering | A |
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| Serene with that grand strength by martyrs shown | B |
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| When at the stake they die and make no moan | B |
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| And even as the flames leap up are heard to sing | A |
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| A courage so sublime and unafraid | C |
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| It wears its sorrows like a coat of mail | D |
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| And Fate the archer passes by dismayed | C |
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| Knowing his best barbed arrows needs must fail | D |
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| To pierce a soul so armored and arrayed | C |
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| That Death himself might look on it and quail | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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