Influence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EFEFAA GHGHII JKJKLL MNMOII| We know not what mysterious power | A |
| Lies latent in our words and deeds | B |
| Sweet as the perfume of a flower | A |
| Strong as the life that sleeps in seeds | B |
| But something certainly survives | C |
| The passing of our fleeting lives | D |
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| A look a pressure of the hand | E |
| A sign of hope a song of cheer | F |
| May journey over sea and land | E |
| Outliving many a sterile year | F |
| To find at last the destined hour | A |
| When they shall leap to bud and flower | A |
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| We write we print then nevermore | G |
| To be recalled our thoughts take flight | H |
| Like white winged birds that leave the shore | G |
| And scattering lose themselves in light | H |
| For good or ill those words may be | I |
| The arbiters of destiny | I |
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| Perchance some fervid plea may find | J |
| A heart to rise to its appeal | K |
| Some statement rouse a dormant mind | J |
| Or stir a spirit quick to feel | K |
| Nay through some note of gentler tone | L |
| Even love may recognize its own | L |
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| Fain would I deem not wholly dead | M |
| The spoken words of former years | N |
| And every printed page when read | M |
| A source of smiles instead of tears | O |
| That friends whom I shall never see | I |
| May for a time remember me | I |
John L. Stoddard
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