To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIHI JKJK| Only from day to day | A |
| The life of a wise man runs | B |
| What matter if seasons far away | A |
| Have gloom or have double suns | B |
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| To climb the unreal path | C |
| We stray from the roadway here | D |
| We swim the rivers of wrath | C |
| And tunnel the hills of fear | E |
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| Our feet on the torrent's brink | F |
| Our eyes on the cloud afar | G |
| We fear the things we think | F |
| Instead of the things that are | G |
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| Like a tide our work should rise | H |
| Each later wave the best | I |
| To day is a king in disguise | H |
| To day is the special test | I |
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| Like a sawyer's work is life | J |
| The present makes the flaw | K |
| And the only field for strife | J |
| Is the inch before the saw | K |
John Boyle O'reilly
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