Quand-meme Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCE FGFG HIJI KLKL MNMN OPOP QOQO RSRS| I strove like Israel with my youth | A |
| And said Till thou bestow | B |
| Upon my life Love's joy and truth | A |
| I will not let thee go | B |
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| And sudden on my night there woke | C |
| The trouble of the dawn | D |
| Out of the east the red light broke | C |
| To broaden on and on | E |
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| And now let death be far or nigh | F |
| Let fortune gloom or shine | G |
| I cannot all untimely die | F |
| For love for love is mine | G |
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| My days are tuned to finer chords | H |
| And lit by higher suns | I |
| Through all my thoughts and all my words | J |
| A purer purpose runs | I |
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| The blank page of my heart grows rife | K |
| With wealth of tender lore | L |
| Her image stamped upon my life | K |
| Gives value evermore | L |
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| She is so noble firm and true | M |
| I drink truth from her eyes | N |
| As violets gain the heaven's own blue | M |
| In gazing at the skies | N |
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| No matter if my hands attain | O |
| The golden crown or cross | P |
| Only to love is such a gain | O |
| That losing is not loss | P |
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| And thus whatever fate betide | Q |
| Of rapture or of pain | O |
| If storm or sun the future hide | Q |
| My love is not in vain | O |
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| So only thanks are on my lips | R |
| And through my love I see | S |
| My earliest dreams like freighted ships | R |
| Come sailing home to me | S |
John Hay
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