Respite Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC DEDE FGFF HIHI| The mighty conflict which we call existence | A |
| Doth wear upon the body and the soul | B |
| Our vital forces wasted in resistance | A |
| So much there is to conquer and control | B |
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| The rock which meets the billows with defiance | A |
| Undaunted and unshaken day by day | C |
| In spite of its unyielding self reliance | A |
| Is by the warfare surely worn away | C |
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| And there are depths and heights of strong emotions | D |
| That surge at times within the human breast | E |
| More fierce than all the tides of all the oceans | D |
| Which sweep on ever in divine unrest | E |
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| I sometimes think the rock worn with adventures | F |
| And sad with thoughts of conflicts yet to be | G |
| Must envy the frail reed which no one censures | F |
| When overcome 'tis swallowed by the sea | F |
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| This life is all resistance and repression | H |
| Dear God if in that other world unseen | I |
| Not rest we find but new life and progression | H |
| Grant us a respite in the grave between | I |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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