Upon The Sand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCEE| All love that has not friendship for its base | A |
| Is like a mansion built upon the sand | B |
| Though brave its walls as any in the land | B |
| And its tall turrets lift their heads in grace | A |
| Though skillful and accomplished artists trace | A |
| Most beautiful designs on every hand | B |
| And gleaming statues in dim niches stand | B |
| And mountains play in some flow'r hidden place | A |
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| Yet when from the frowning east a sudden gust | C |
| Of adverse fate is blown or sad rains fall | D |
| Day in day out against its yielding wall | D |
| Lo the fair structure crumbles to the dust | C |
| Love to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe | E |
| Needs friendship's solid masonwork below | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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