Grief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHIJ| There is a hungry longing in the soul | A |
| A craving sense of emptiness and pain | B |
| She may not satisfy nor yet control | A |
| For all the teeming world looks void and vain | B |
| No compensation in eternal spheres | C |
| She knows the loneliness of all her years | C |
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| There is no comfort looking forth nor back | D |
| The present gives the lie to all her past | E |
| Will cruel time restore what she doth lack | D |
| Why was no shadow of this doom forecast | E |
| Ah she hath played with many a keen edged thing | F |
| Naught is too small and soft to turn and sting | F |
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| In the unnatural glory of the hour | G |
| Exalted over time and death and fate | H |
| No earthly task appears beyond her power | G |
| No possible endurance seemeth great | H |
| She knows her misery and her majesty | I |
| And recks not if she be to live or die | J |
Emma Lazarus
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