Lines From Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDDC EFFGEG HHIIJJ| I'd rather have my verses win | A |
| A place in common people's hearts | B |
| Who toiling through the strife and din | A |
| Of life's great thoroughfares and marts | B |
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| May read some line my hand has penned | C |
| Some simple verse not fine or grand | D |
| But what their hearts can understand | D |
| And hold me henceforth as a friend | C |
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| I'd rather win such quiet fame | E |
| Than by some fine thought bolished so | F |
| But those of learned minds would know | F |
| Just what the meaning of my song | G |
| To have the critics sound my name | E |
| In high flown praises loud and long | G |
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| I sing not for the critic's ear | H |
| But for the masses If they hear | H |
| Despite the turmoil noise and strife | I |
| Some least low note that gladdens life | I |
| I shall be wholly satisfied | J |
| Though critics to the end deride | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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