Sympathy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBB ABDBBB EBFBBB GBABBBBB| Is the way hard and thorny oh my brother | A |
| Do tempests beat and adverse wild winds blow | B |
| And are you spent and broken at each nightfall | C |
| Yet with each morn you rise and onward go | B |
| Brother I know I know | B |
| I too have journeyed so | B |
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| Is your heart mad with longing oh my sister | A |
| Are all great passions in your breast aglow | B |
| Does the white wonder of your own soul blind you | D |
| And are you torn with rapture and with woe | B |
| Sister I know I know | B |
| I too have suffered so | B |
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| Is the road filled with snare and quicksand pilgrim | E |
| Do pitfalls lie where roses seem to grow | B |
| And have you sometimes stumbled in the darkness | F |
| And are you bruised and scarred by many a blow | B |
| Pilgrim I know I know | B |
| I too have stumbled so | B |
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| Do you send out rebellious cry and question | G |
| As mocking hours pass silently and slow | B |
| Does your insistent 'wherefore' bring no answer | A |
| While stars wax pale with watching and droop low | B |
| I too have questioned so | B |
| But now I KNOW I KNOW | B |
| To toil to strive to err to cry to grow | B |
| TO LOVE THROUGH all this is the way to KNOW | B |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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