Hope (from The German Of Schiller) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFGFHH IJAJCC| Men talk and dream of better days | A |
| Of a golden time to come | B |
| Toward a happy and shining goal | C |
| They run with a ceaseless hum | B |
| The world grows old and grows young again | D |
| Still hope of the better is bright to men | D |
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| Hope leads us in at the gate of life | E |
| She crowns the boyish head | F |
| Her bright lamp lures the stalwart youth | G |
| Nor burns out with the gray haired dead | F |
| For the grave closes over his trouble and care | H |
| But see on the grave Hope is planted there | H |
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| 'Tis not an empty and flattering deceit | I |
| Begot in a foolish brain | J |
| For the heart speaks loud with its ceaseless throbs | A |
| We are not born in vain | J |
| And the words that out of the heart throbs roll | C |
| They cannot deceive the hoping soul | C |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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