Reality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE CDDC GBBG HIIH JKKJ LBBM NOON PQRS ITTI| These things alone endure | A |
| 'They are the solid facts ' that we may grasp | B |
| Leading us on and upward if we clasp | B |
| And hold them firm and sure | A |
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| In a wise fable old | C |
| A hero sought a god who could at will | D |
| Assume all figures and the hero still | D |
| Loosed not his steadfast hold | C |
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| For image foul or fair | E |
| For soft eyed nymph who wept with pain and shame | F |
| For threatening fiend or loathsome beast or flame | F |
| For menace or for prayer | E |
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| Until the god outbraved | C |
| Took his own shape divine not wrathfully | D |
| But wondering to the hero gave reply | D |
| The knowledge that he craved | C |
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| We seize the god in youth | G |
| All forms conspire to make us loose our grasp | B |
| Ambition folly gain till we unclasp | B |
| From the embrace of truth | G |
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| We grow more wise we say | H |
| And work for worldly ends and mock our dream | I |
| Alas while all life's glory and its gleam | I |
| With that have fled away | H |
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| If thereto we had clung | J |
| Through change and peril fire and night and storm | K |
| Till it assumed its proper godlike form | K |
| We might at last have wrung | J |
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| An answer to our cries | L |
| A brave response to our most valiant hope | B |
| Unto the light of day this word might ope | B |
| A million mysteries | M |
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| O'er each man's brow I see | N |
| The bright star of his genius shining clear | O |
| It seeks to guide him to a nobler sphere | O |
| Above earth's vanity | N |
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| Up to pure height of snow | P |
| Its beckoning ray still leads him on and on | Q |
| To those who follow lo itself comes down | R |
| And crowns at length their brow | S |
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| The nimbus still doth gleam | I |
| On these the heroes sages of the earth | T |
| The few who found in life of any worth | T |
| Only their loftiest dream | I |
Emma Lazarus
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