The Value Of Gold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB EFEF CGCG CHCH CICI EJEJ| There may be standard weight for precious metal | A |
| But deeper meaning it must ever hold | B |
| Thank God there are some things no law can settle | A |
| And one of these the real worth of gold | B |
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| The stamp of king or crown has common power | C |
| To hold the traffic value in control | D |
| Our coarser senses note this worth the lower | C |
| The higher comes from senses of the soul | D |
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| This truth we find not in mere warehouse learning | E |
| The value varies with the hands that hold | B |
| The worth depends upon the mode of earning | E |
| And this man's copper equals that man's gold | B |
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| With empty heart and forehead lined with scheming | E |
| Men's sin and sorrow have been that man's gain | F |
| But this man's heart with rich emotions teeming | E |
| Makes fine the gold for which he coins his brain | F |
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| But richer still than gold from upright labor | C |
| The only gold that should have standard price | G |
| Is the poor earning of our humble neighbor | C |
| Whose every coin is red with sacrifice | G |
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| Mere store of money is not wealth but rather | C |
| The proof of poverty and need of bread | H |
| Like men themselves is the bright gold they gather | C |
| It may be living or it may be dead | H |
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| It may be filled with love and life and vigor | C |
| To guide the wearer and to cheer the way | I |
| It may be corpse like in its weight and rigor | C |
| Bending the bearer to his native clay | I |
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| There Is no comfort but in outward showing | E |
| In all the servile homage paid to dross | J |
| Better to heart and soul the silent knowing | E |
| Our little store has not been gained by loss | J |
John Boyle O'reilly
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