The Question Whither Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFE A GHGHHHHH A ICJCKKKK| I | A |
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| When we have thrown off this old suit | B |
| So much in need of mending | C |
| To sink among the naked mute | B |
| Is that think you our ending | C |
| We follow many more we lead | D |
| And you who sadly turf us | E |
| Believe not that all living seed | F |
| Must flower above the surface | E |
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| II | A |
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| Sensation is a gracious gift | G |
| But were it cramped to station | H |
| The prayer to have it cast adrift | G |
| Would spout from all sensation | H |
| Enough if we have winked to sun | H |
| Have sped the plough a season | H |
| There is a soul for labour done | H |
| Endureth fixed as reason | H |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| Then let our trust be firm in Good | I |
| Though we be of the fasting | C |
| Our questions are a mortal brood | J |
| Our work is everlasting | C |
| We children of Beneficence | K |
| Are in its being sharers | K |
| And Whither vainer sounds than Whence | K |
| For word with such wayfarers | K |
George Meredith
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