Retrospection Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG CHCH IJIJ KLKL MNMN MOMO PQPQI look down the lengthening distance | A |
Far back to youth's valley of hope | B |
How strange seemed the ways of existence | A |
How infinite life and its scope | B |
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What dreams what ambitions came thronging | C |
To people a world of my own | D |
How the heart in my bosom was longing | C |
For pleasures and places unknown | D |
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But the hill tops of pleasure and beauty | E |
Were covered with mist at the dawn | F |
And only the rugged road Duty | E |
Shone clear as my feet wandered on | G |
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I loved not the path and its leading | C |
I hated the rocks and the dust | H |
But a Voice from the Silence was pleading | C |
It spoke but one syllable Trust | H |
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I saw as the morning grew older | I |
The fair flowered hills of delight | J |
And the feet of my comrades grew bolder | I |
They hurried away from my sight | J |
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And when on the pathway I faltered | K |
And when I rebelled at my fate | L |
The Voice with assurance unaltered | K |
Again spoke one syllable Wait | L |
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Along the hard highway I travelled | M |
And saw with dim vision how soon | N |
The morning's gold locks were unravelled | M |
By fingers of amorous noon | N |
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A turn in the pathway of duty | M |
I stood in the perfect day's prime | O |
Close close to the hillside of beauty | M |
The Voice from the Silence said Climb | O |
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The road to the beautiful Regions | P |
Lies ever through Duty's hard way | Q |
Oh ye who go searching in legions | P |
Know this and be patient to day | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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