Fleeing Away Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKDD| My thoughts soar not as they ought to soar | A |
| Higher and higher on soul lent wings | B |
| But ever and often and more and more | A |
| They are dragged down earthward by little things | B |
| By little troubles and little needs | C |
| As a lark might be tangled among the weeds | C |
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| My purpose is not what it ought to be | D |
| Steady and fixed like a star on high | E |
| But more like a fisherman's light at sea | D |
| Hither and thither it seems to fly | E |
| Sometimes feeble and sometimes bright | F |
| Then suddenly lost in the gloom of night | F |
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| My life is far from my dream of life | G |
| Calmly contented serenely glad | H |
| But vexed and worried by daily strife | G |
| It is always troubled and ofttimes sad | H |
| And the heights I had thought I should reach one day | I |
| Grow dimmer and dimmer and farther away | I |
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| My heart finds never the longed for rest | J |
| Its worldly striving its greed for gold | K |
| Chilled and frightened the calm eyed guest | J |
| Who sometimes sought me in days of old | K |
| And ever fleeing away from me | D |
| Is the higher self that I long to be | D |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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