The Goal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGDH IJIJ AKLK| Each life converges to some centre | A |
| Expressed or still | B |
| Exists in every human nature | A |
| A goal | C |
| - | |
| Admitted scarcely to itself it may be | D |
| Too fair | E |
| For credibility's temerity | D |
| To dare | E |
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| Adored with caution as a brittle heaven | F |
| To reach | G |
| Were hopeless as the rainbow's raiment | D |
| To touch | H |
| - | |
| Yet persevered toward surer for the distance | I |
| How high | J |
| Unto the saints' slow diligence | I |
| The sky | J |
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| Ungained it may be by a life's low venture | A |
| But then | K |
| Eternity enables the endeavoring | L |
| Again | K |
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
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