Something Left Undone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFFF GCGC FHFH| Labor with what zeal we will | A |
| Something still remains undone | B |
| Something uncompleted still | A |
| Waits the rising of the sun | B |
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| By the bedside on the stair | C |
| At the threshhold near the gates | D |
| With its menace or its prayer | C |
| Like a medicant it waits | D |
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| Waits and will not go away | E |
| Waits and will not be gainsaid | F |
| By the cares of yesterday | F |
| Each to day is heavier made | F |
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| Till at length the burden seems | G |
| Greater than our strength can bear | C |
| Heavy as the weight of dreams | G |
| Pressing on us everywhere | C |
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| And we stand from day to day | F |
| Like the dwarfs of times gone by | H |
| Who as Northern legends say | F |
| On their shoulders held the sky | H |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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