The All-creative Spark Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFGG HIHIJK LMLMNN OFOFCC| Pain can go guised as joy dross pass for gold | A |
| Vulgarity can masquerade as wit | B |
| Or spite wear friendship's garments but I hold | A |
| That passionate feeling has no counterfeit | B |
| Chief jewel from Jove's crown 'twas sent men lent | C |
| For inspiration and for sacrament | D |
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| Jove never could have made the Universe | E |
| Had he not glowed with passion's sacred fire | F |
| Though man oft turns the blessing to a curse | E |
| And burns himself on his own funeral pyre | F |
| Though scarred the soul be where its light burns bright | G |
| Yet where it is not neither is there might | G |
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| Yea it was set in Jove's resplendent crown | H |
| When he created worlds that done why hence | I |
| He cast the priceless awful jewel down | H |
| To be man's punishment and recompense | I |
| And that is how he sees and hears our tears | J |
| Unmoved and calm from the eternal spheres | K |
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| But sometimes since he parted with all passion | L |
| In trifling mood to pass the time away | M |
| He has created men in that same fashion | L |
| And many women jesting as gods may | M |
| Who have no souls to be inspired or fired | N |
| Mere sport of idle gods who have grown tired | N |
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| And these poor puppets gazing in the dark | O |
| At their own shadows think the world no higher | F |
| And when they see the all creative spark | O |
| In other souls they straightway cry out Fire | F |
| And shriek and rave till their dissent is spent | C |
| While listening gods laugh loud in merriment | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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