The Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCADEEDFAAFAGHGAIA AJ| I saw in dream the spirits unbegot | A |
| Veiled floating phantoms lost in twilight space | B |
| For one the hour had struck he paused the place | B |
| Rang with an awful Voice | C |
| Soul choose thy lot | A |
| Two paths are offered that in velvet flower | D |
| Slopes easily to every earthly prize | E |
| Follow the multitude and bind thine eyes | E |
| Thou and thy sons' sons shall have peace with power | D |
| This narrow track skirts the abysmal verge | F |
| Here shalt thou stumble totter weep and bleed | A |
| All men shall hate and hound thee and thy seed | A |
| Thy portion be the wound the stripe the scourge | F |
| But in thy hand I place my lamp for light | A |
| Thy blood shall be the witness of my Law | G |
| Choose now for all the ages | H |
| Then I saw | G |
| The unveiled spirit grown divinely bright | A |
| Choose the grim path He turned I knew full well | I |
| The pale great martyr forehead shadowy curled | A |
| The glowing eyes that had renounced the world | A |
| Disgraced despised immortal Israel | J |
Emma Lazarus
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