Dolores Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCCDD EFFEEG GHHIIJ KLKL MNNNOMPQ RRRDSDST| IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scan | A |
| The woeful things that shadow all our life | B |
| The latent brute behind the eyes of man | A |
| The place and power gained and stained by strife | B |
| The weakly victims driven to the wall | C |
| The subtle cruelties that meet us all | C |
| Like eyes from darksome places Blessed is he | D |
| Who such sad things is never doomed to see | D |
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| The crust of common life is worn by time | E |
| And shines deception as a thin veneer | F |
| The raw plank hides or as the frozen mere | F |
| Holds drowned men embedded in its slime | E |
| The ninety eat their bread of death and crime | E |
| And sin and sorrow that the ten may thrive | G |
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| O moaning sea of life the few who dive | G |
| Beneath thy waters faint and short of breath | H |
| Not Dante like who cannot swim in death | H |
| And view its secrets but must swiftly rise | I |
| They meet the light with introverted eyes | I |
| And hands that clutch a few dim mysteries | J |
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| Our life a harp is with unnumbered strings | K |
| And tones and symphonies but our poor skill | L |
| Some shallow notes from its great music brings | K |
| We know it there but vainly wish and will | L |
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| O things symbolic Things that mock our sense | M |
| Our five fold pitiable sense and say | N |
| A thousand senses could not show one day | N |
| As sight infinite sees it fruitful clay | N |
| And budding bough and nature great with child | O |
| And chill with doom and death is all so dense | M |
| That our dull thought can never read thy words | P |
| Or sweep with knowing hand thy hidden chords | Q |
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| Have men not fallen from fair heights once trod | R |
| By nobler minds who saw the works of God | R |
| The flowers and living things still undefiled | R |
| And spoke one language with them And can we | D |
| In countless generations each more pure | S |
| Than that preceding come at last to see | D |
| Thy symbols full of meaning and be sure | S |
| That what we read is all they have to tell | T |
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