Overruled Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHH IIJJ| The threads our hands in blindness spin | A |
| No self determined plan weaves in | A |
| The shuttle of the unseen powers | B |
| Works out a pattern not as ours | B |
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| Ah small the choice of him who sings | C |
| What sound shall leave the smitten strings | C |
| Fate holds and guides the hand of art | D |
| The singer's is the servant's part | D |
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| The wind harp chooses not the tone | E |
| That through its trembling threads is blown | E |
| The patient organ cannot guess | F |
| What hand its passive keys shall press | F |
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| Through wish resolve and act our will | G |
| Is moved by undreamed forces still | G |
| And no man measures in advance | H |
| His strength with untried circumstance | H |
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| As streams take hue from shade and sun | I |
| As runs the life the song must run | I |
| But glad or sad to His good end | J |
| God grant the varying notes may tend | J |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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