What I Have Seen #4 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFGHIJI KLKLCIMI NONPHQMQ| I saw a youth one of God's favored few | A |
| Crowned with beauty and talents and health | B |
| He had climbed the steep pathway and cut his way through | A |
| To the summit of glory and wealth | B |
| The day is breaking hearts are waking | C |
| Refreshed for the field of labor | D |
| Arise arise like the king of the skies | E |
| With a greeting for friend and neighbor | D |
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| He had toiled hard for the honors he'd won | F |
| He had climbed over high rocks forded streams | G |
| Braved the bleak winter snow the hot summer sun | F |
| He was reaching the goal of his dreams | G |
| The day hangs around us the sun hath bound us | H |
| With fetters silken and yellow | I |
| Flow flow away fleeting day | J |
| Golden hearted and mellow | I |
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| I saw the youth lift a mug to his mouth | K |
| Drink the last drop of the fearful first glass | L |
| Ah his veins thrill in a fierce scorching drouth | K |
| He fills it again again drinks it alas | L |
| The day is dying hearts are sighing | C |
| Crushed with a weight of sorrow | I |
| Sleep oh sleep in a slumber deep | M |
| And wait for a bright to morrow | I |
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| I saw him low in the dust at my feet | N |
| Gone beauty health wealth strength talents all | O |
| From the summit of Fame to the slime of the street | N |
| He had bartered his soul for the fiend Alcohol | P |
| The night hangs o'er us the wind's wild chorus | H |
| Shrieks like a demons' revel | Q |
| Weep sob weep for the fog is deep | M |
| And the world is sold to the devil | Q |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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