Aspiration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHE HCI CIC IBJ KCB CLA LML MNN| Dark lies the earth and bright with worlds the sky | A |
| That soft large lustrous star that first outshone | B |
| Still holds us spelled with potent sorcery | C |
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| Dilating shrinking lightening it hath won | D |
| Our spirit with its strange strong influence | E |
| And sways it as the tides beneath the moon | F |
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| What impulse this o'ermastering heart and sense | G |
| Exalted thrilled the freed soul fain would soar | H |
| Unto that point of shining prominence | E |
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| Craving new fields and some unheard of shore | H |
| Yea all the heavens for her activity | C |
| To mount with daring flight to hover o'er | I |
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| Low hills of earth flat meadows level sea | C |
| And earthly joy and trouble In this hour | I |
| Of waning light and sound of mystery | C |
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| Of shadowed love and beauty veiled power | I |
| She feels her wings she yearns to grasp her own | B |
| Knowing the utmost good to be her dower | J |
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| A dream a dream for at a touch 't is gone | K |
| O mocking spirit thy mere fools are we | C |
| Unto the depths from heights celestial thrown | B |
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| From these blind gropings toward reality | C |
| This thirst for truth this most pathetic need | L |
| Of something to uplift to justify | A |
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| To help and comfort while we faint and bleed | L |
| May we not draw wrung from the last despair | M |
| Some argument of hope some blessed creed | L |
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| That we can trust the faith which whispers prayer | M |
| The vanishings the ecstasy the gleam | N |
| The nameless aspiration and the dream | N |
Emma Lazarus
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