Utterance Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDDCEFFEGG| But what avail inadequate words to reach | A |
| The innermost of Truth Who shall essay | B |
| Blinded and weak to point and lead the way | B |
| Or solve the mystery in familiar speech | A |
| Yet if it be that something not thy own | C |
| Some shadow of the Thought to which our schemes | D |
| Creeds cult and ritual are at best but dreams | D |
| Is even to thy unworthiness made known | C |
| Thou mayst not hide what yet thou shouldst not dare | E |
| To utter lightly lest on lips of thine | F |
| The real seem false the beauty undivine | F |
| So weighing duty in the scale of prayer | E |
| Give what seems given thee It may prove a seed | G |
| Of goodness dropped in fallow grounds of need | G |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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