Duty's Path Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHEHE IJIJKEKE| Out from the harbour of youth's bay | A |
| There leads the path of pleasure | B |
| With eager steps we walk that way | A |
| To brim joy's largest measure | B |
| But when with morn's departing beam | C |
| Goes youth's last precious minute | D |
| We sigh 'Twas but a fevered dream | C |
| There's nothing in it | E |
| - | |
| Then on our vision dawns afar | F |
| The goal of glory gleaming | G |
| Like some great radiant solar star | F |
| And sets us longing dreaming | G |
| Forgetting all things left behind | H |
| We strain each nerve to win it | E |
| But when 'tis ours alas we find | H |
| There's nothing in it | E |
| - | |
| We turn our sad reluctant gaze | I |
| Upon the path of duty | J |
| Its barren uninviting ways | I |
| Are void of bloom and beauty | J |
| Yet in that road though dark and cold | K |
| It seems as we begin it | E |
| As we press on lo we behold | K |
| There's Heaven in it | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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