My Triumph Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FGHH GGGG HHII JJGG KKGG GGLL DDGG DDMM NNGG OOPP HHHH QQGG RRHH OOSS KTHH GGDD| The autumn time has come | A |
| On woods that dream of bloom | B |
| And over purpling vines | C |
| The low sun fainter shines | C |
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| The aster flower is failing | D |
| The hazel's gold is paling | D |
| Yet overhead more near | E |
| The eternal stars appear | E |
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| And present gratitude | F |
| Insures the future's good | G |
| And for the things I see | H |
| I trust the things to be | H |
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| That in the paths untrod | G |
| And the long days of God | G |
| My feet shall still be led | G |
| My heart be comforted | G |
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| O living friends who love me | H |
| O dear ones gone above me | H |
| Careless of other fame | I |
| I leave to you my name | I |
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| Hide it from idle praises | J |
| Save it from evil phrases | J |
| Why when dear lips that spake it | G |
| Are dumb should strangers wake it | G |
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| Let the thick curtain fall | K |
| I better know than all | K |
| How little I have gained | G |
| How vast the unattained | G |
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| Not by the page word painted | G |
| Let life be banned or sainted | G |
| Deeper than written scroll | L |
| The colors of the soul | L |
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| Sweeter than any sung | D |
| My songs that found no tongue | D |
| Nobler than any fact | G |
| My wish that failed of act | G |
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| Others shall sing the song | D |
| Others shall right the wrong | D |
| Finish what I begin | M |
| And all I fail of win | M |
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| What matter I or they | N |
| Mine or another's day | N |
| So the right word be said | G |
| And life the sweeter made | G |
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| Hail to the coming singers | O |
| Hail to the brave light bringers | O |
| Forward I reach and share | P |
| All that they sing and dare | P |
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| The airs of heaven blow o'er me | H |
| A glory shines before me | H |
| Of what mankind shall be | H |
| Pure generous brave and free | H |
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| A dream of man and woman | Q |
| Diviner but still human | Q |
| Solving the riddle old | G |
| Shaping the Age of Gold | G |
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| The love of God and neighbor | R |
| An equal handed labor | R |
| The richer life where beauty | H |
| Walks hand in hand with duty | H |
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| Ring bells in unreared steeples | O |
| The joy of unborn peoples | O |
| Sound trumpets far off blown | S |
| Your triumph is my own | S |
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| Parcel and part of all | K |
| I keep the festival | T |
| Fore reach the good to be | H |
| And share the victory | H |
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| I feel the earth move sunward | G |
| I join the great march onward | G |
| And take by faith while living | D |
| My freehold of thanksgiving | D |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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