Truth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD BBCCEEFF GGDDHHCCDD IIDD JJKKLLMMNN| A rock for ages stern and high | A |
| Stood frowning 'gainst the earth and sky | A |
| And never bowed his haughty crest | B |
| When angry storms around him prest | B |
| Morn springing from the arms of night | C |
| Had often bathed his brow with light | C |
| And kissed the shadows from his face | D |
| With tender love and gentle grace | D |
| - | |
| Day pausing at the gates of rest | B |
| Smiled on him from the distant West | B |
| And from her throne the dark browed Night | C |
| Threw round his path her softest light | C |
| And yet he stood unmoved and proud | E |
| Nor love nor wrath his spirit bowed | E |
| He bared his brow to every blast | F |
| And scorned the tempest as it passed | F |
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| One day a tiny humble seed | G |
| The keenest eye would hardly heed | G |
| Fell trembling at that stern rock's base | D |
| And found a lowly hiding place | D |
| A ray of light and drop of dew | H |
| Came with a message kind and true | H |
| They told her of the world so bright | C |
| Its love its joy and rosy light | C |
| And lured her from her hiding place | D |
| To gaze upon earth's glorious face | D |
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| So peeping timid from the ground | I |
| She clasped the ancient rock around | I |
| And climbing up with childish grace | D |
| She held him with a close embrace | D |
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| Her clinging was a thing of dread | J |
| Where'er she touched a fissure spread | J |
| And he who'd breasted many a storm | K |
| Stood frowning there a mangled form | K |
| A Truth dropped in the silent earth | L |
| May seem a thing of little worth | L |
| Till spreading round some mighty wrong | M |
| It saps its pillars proud and strong | M |
| And o'er the fallen ruin weaves | N |
| The brightest blooms and fairest leaves | N |
Frances E. W. Harper
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