Tis The Set Of The Sail -- Or -- One Ship Sails East Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDC ACAC EFCGGC HIJKKJ| But to every mind there openeth | A |
| A way and way and away | B |
| A high soul climbs the highway | B |
| And the low soul gropes the low | C |
| And in between on the misty flats | D |
| The rest drift to and fro | C |
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| But to every man there openeth | A |
| A high way and a low | C |
| And every mind decideth | A |
| The way his soul shall go | C |
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| One ship sails East | E |
| And another West | F |
| By the self same winds that blow | C |
| 'Tis the set of the sails | G |
| And not the gales | G |
| That tells the way we go | C |
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| Like the winds of the sea | H |
| Are the waves of time | I |
| As we journey along through life | J |
| 'Tis the set of the soul | K |
| That determines the goal | K |
| And not the calm or the strife | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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