The Enthusiast Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEED FGFGHIJH KLKLDMND| Though He slay me yet will I trust in Him | A |
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| Shall hearts that beat no base retreat | B |
| In youth's magnanimous years | C |
| Ignoble hold it if discreet | B |
| When interest tames to fears | C |
| Shall spirits that worship light | D |
| Perfidious deem its sacred glow | E |
| Recant and trudge where worldlings go | E |
| Conform and own them right | D |
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| Shall Time with creeping influence cold | F |
| Unnerve and cow the heart | G |
| Pine for the heartless ones enrolled | F |
| With palterers of the mart | G |
| Shall faith abjure her skies | H |
| Or pale probation blench her down | I |
| To shrink from Truth so still so lone | J |
| Mid loud gregarious lies | H |
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| Each burning boat in Caesar's rear | K |
| Flames No return through me | L |
| So put the torch to ties though dear | K |
| If ties but tempters be | L |
| Nor cringe if come the night | D |
| Walk through the cloud to meet the pall | M |
| Though light forsake thee never fall | N |
| From fealty to light | D |
Herman Melville
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