The Abnormal Is Not Courage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCAADEFGHIJKLMLNKOL PH| The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German | A |
| Tanks on horses Rode knowing in sunlight with sabers | B |
| A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace | C |
| And yet this poem would lessen that day Question | A |
| The bravery Say it's not courage Call it a passion | A |
| Would say courage isn't that Not at its best | D |
| It was impossible and with form They rode in sunlight | E |
| Were mangled But I say courage is not the abnormal | F |
| Not the marvelous act Not Macbeth with fine speeches | G |
| The worthless can manage in public or for the moment | H |
| It is too near the whore's heart the bounty of impulse | I |
| And the failure to sustain even small kindness | J |
| Not the marvelous act but the evident conclusion of being | K |
| Not strangeness but a leap forward of the same quality | L |
| Accomplishment The even loyalty But fresh | M |
| Not the Prodigal Son nor Faustus But Penelope | L |
| The thing steady and clear Then the crescendo | N |
| The real form The culmination And the exceeding | K |
| Not the surprise The amazed understanding The marriage | O |
| Not the month's rapture Not the exception The beauty | L |
| That is of many days Steady and clear | P |
| It is the normal excellence of long accomplishment | H |
Jack Gilbert
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