Upon The Sand Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCEEAll 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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