The Unattained Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCB DEDEFF F GHGHIFIF JFJFKFKF JLJL| A vision beauteous as the morn | A |
| With heavenly eyes and tresses streaming | B |
| Slow glided o'er a field late shorn | A |
| Where walked a poet idly dreaming | B |
| He saw her and joy lit his face | C |
| Oh vanish not at human speaking | B |
| He cried thou form of magic grace | C |
| Thou art the poem I am seeking | B |
| - | |
| I've sought thee long I claim thee now | D |
| My thought embodied living real | E |
| She shook the tresses from her brow | D |
| Nay nay she said I am ideal | E |
| I am the phantom of desire | F |
| The spirit of all great endeavour | F |
| I am the voice that says 'Come higher ' | - |
| That calls men up and up for ever | F |
| - | |
| 'Tis not alone thy thought supreme | G |
| That here upon thy path has risen | H |
| I am the artist's highest dream | G |
| The ray of light he cannot prison | H |
| I am the sweet ecstatic note | I |
| Than all glad music gladder clearer | F |
| That trembles in the singer's throat | I |
| And dies without a human hearer | F |
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| I am the greater better yield | J |
| That leads and cheers thy farmer neighbour | F |
| For me he bravely tills the field | J |
| And whistles gaily at his labour | F |
| Not thou alone O poet soul | K |
| Dost seek me through an endless morrow | F |
| But to the toiling hoping whole | K |
| I am at once the hope and sorrow | F |
| - | |
| The spirit of the unattained | J |
| I am to those who seek to name me | L |
| A good desired but never gained | J |
| All shall pursue but none shall claim me | L |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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