The Trinity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCACDDEEFFGG HIIJHKLLEECCMM NBBONOPPEENNQQGG| Much may be done with the world we are in | A |
| Much with the race to better it | B |
| We can unfetter it | B |
| Free it from chains of the old traditions | C |
| Broaden its viewpoint of virtue and sin | A |
| Change its conditions | C |
| Of labour and wealth | D |
| And open new roadways to knowledge and health | D |
| Yet some things ever must stay as they are | E |
| While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star | E |
| A man and a woman with love between | F |
| Loyal and tender and true and clean | F |
| Nothing better has been or can be | G |
| Than just those three | G |
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| Woman may alter the first great plan | H |
| Daughters and sisters and mothers | I |
| May stalk with their brothers | I |
| Forth from their homes into noisy places | J |
| Fit and fit only for masculine man | H |
| Marring their graces | K |
| With conflict and strife | L |
| To widen the outlook of all human life | L |
| Yet some things ever must stay as they are | E |
| While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star | E |
| A man and a woman with love that strengthens | C |
| And gathers new force as its earth way lengthens | C |
| Nothing better by God is given | M |
| This side of heaven | M |
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| Science may show us a wonderful vast | N |
| Secret of life and of breeding it | B |
| Man by the heeding it | B |
| Out of earth's chaos may bring a new order | O |
| Off with old systems old laws may be cast | N |
| What now seems the border | O |
| Of licence in creeds | P |
| May then be the centre of thoughts and of deeds | P |
| Yet some things ever must stay as they are | E |
| While the sea has its tide and the sky has its star | E |
| A man and a woman and love undefiled | N |
| And the look of the two in the face of a child | N |
| Oh the joys of this world have their changing ways | Q |
| But this joy stays | Q |
| Nothing better on earth can be | G |
| Than just those three | G |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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