Grief's Hero Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KKBBLMBBNNOOBBPPBBQQ RRBBSSTT UUVVBBJJWWXXYZA2A2B2 B2BBC2C2 BB C2C2D2E2N F2G2BBPF2| A youth unto herself Grief took | A |
| Whom everything of joy forsook | A |
| And men passed with denying head | B |
| Saying 'T were better he were dead | B |
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| Grief took him and with master touch | C |
| Molded his being I marveled much | C |
| To see her magic with the clay | D |
| So much she gave and took away | D |
| Daily she wrought and her design | E |
| Grew daily clearer and more fine | E |
| To make the beauty of his shape | F |
| Serve for the spirit's free escape | F |
| With liquid fire she filled his eyes | G |
| She graced his lips with swift surmise | G |
| Of sympathy for others' woe | H |
| And made his every fibre flow | H |
| In fairer curves On brow and chin | I |
| And tinted cheek drawn clean and thin | I |
| She sculptured records rich great Grief | J |
| She made him loving made him lief | J |
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| I marveled for where others saw | K |
| A failing frame with many a flaw | K |
| Meseemed a figure I beheld | B |
| Fairer than anything of eld | B |
| Fashioned from sunny marble Here | L |
| Nature was artist with no peer | M |
| No chisel's purpose could have caught | B |
| These lines nor brush their secret wrought | B |
| Not so the world weighed busily | N |
| Pursuing drossy industry | N |
| But saturated with success | O |
| Well guarded by a soft excess | O |
| Of bodily ease gave little heed | B |
| To him that held not by their creed | B |
| Save o'er the beauteous youth to moan | P |
| A pity that he is not grown | P |
| To our good stature and heavier weight | B |
| To bear his share of our full freight | B |
| Meanwhile thus to himself he spoke | Q |
| Oh noble is the knotted oak | Q |
| And sweet the gush of sylvan streams | R |
| And good the great sun's gladding beams | R |
| The blush of life upon the field | B |
| The silent might that mountains wield | B |
| Still more I love to mix with men | S |
| Meeting the kindly human ken | S |
| To feel the force of faithful friends | T |
| The thirst for smiles that never ends | T |
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| Yet precious more than all of these | U |
| I hold great Sorrow's mysteries | U |
| Whereby Gehenna's sultry gale | V |
| Is made to lift the golden veil | V |
| 'Twixt heaven's starry spher d light | B |
| Of truth and our dim sun blent sight | B |
| Joy comes to ripen but 'tis Grief | J |
| That garners in the grainy sheaf | J |
| Time was I feared to know or feel | W |
| The spur of aught but gilded weal | W |
| To bear aloft the victor Fame | X |
| Would ev'n have champed a stately shame | X |
| Of bit and bridle But my fears | Y |
| Fell off in the pure bath of tears | Z |
| And now with sinews fresh and strong | A2 |
| I stride to summon with a song | A2 |
| The deep invigorating truth | B2 |
| That makes me younger than my youth | B2 |
| O Sorrow deathless thy delight | B |
| Deathless it were but for our slight | B |
| Endurance Truth like thine too rare | C2 |
| We dare but take in scantiest share | C2 |
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| He died the creatures of his kind | B |
| Fared on Not one had known his mind | B |
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| But the unnamed yearnings of the air | C2 |
| The eternal sky's wide searching stare | C2 |
| The undertone of brawling floods | D2 |
| And the old moaning of the woods | E2 |
| Grew full of memory | N |
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| The sun | F2 |
| Many a brave heart has shone upon | G2 |
| Since then of men who walked abroad | B |
| For joy and gladness praising God | B |
| But widowed Grief lives on alone | P |
| She hath not chosen of them one | F2 |
George Parsons Lathrop
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