The Fountain Leaps As If Its Nearest Goal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEEDDE| The fountain leaps as if its nearest goal | A |
| Were sky and shines as if its life were light | B |
| No crystal prism flashes on our sight | B |
| Such radiant splendor of the rainbow's whole | A |
| Of color Who would dream the fountain stole | A |
| Its tints and if the sun no more were bright | B |
| Would instant fade to its own pallid white | B |
| Who dream that never higher than the dole | A |
| Of its own source its stream may rise | C |
| Thus we | D |
| See often hearts of men that by love's glow | E |
| Are sudden lighted lifted till they show | E |
| All semblances of true nobility | D |
| The passion spent they tire of purity | D |
| And sink again to their own levels low | E |
Helen Hunt Jackson
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