George Moses Horton, Myself Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIK| I feel myself in need | A |
| Of the inspiring strains of ancient lore | B |
| My heart to lift my empty mind to feed | A |
| And all the world explore | B |
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| I know that I am old | C |
| And never can recover what is past | D |
| But for the future may some light unfold | C |
| And soar from ages blast | D |
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| I feel resolved to try | E |
| My wish to prove my calling to pursue | F |
| Or mount up from the earth into the sky | E |
| To show what Heaven can do | F |
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| My genius from a boy | G |
| Has fluttered like a bird within my heart | H |
| But could not thus confined her powers employ | G |
| Impatient to depart | H |
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| She like a restless bird | I |
| Would spread her wings her power to be unfurl d | J |
| And let her songs be loudly heard | I |
| And dart from world to world | K |
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