Patience Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HIHIJJ| The passion of despair is quelled at last | A |
| The cruel sense of undeserved wrong | B |
| The wild self pity these are also past | A |
| She knows not what may come but she is strong | B |
| She feels she hath not aught to lose nor gain | C |
| Her patience is the essence of all pain | C |
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| As one who sits beside a lapsing stream | D |
| She sees the flow of changeless day by day | E |
| Too sick and tired to think too sad to dream | D |
| Nor cares how soon the waters slip away | E |
| Nor where they lead at the wise God's decree | F |
| She will depart or bide indifferently | G |
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| There is deeper pathos in the mild | H |
| And settled sorrow of the quiet eyes | I |
| Than in the tumults of the anguish wild | H |
| That made her curse all things beneath the skies | I |
| No question no reproaches no complaint | J |
| Hers is the holy calm of some meek saint | J |
Emma Lazarus
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