I Would Not Tarry If I Could Be Gone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACBBA DEDEDE| I would not tarry if I could be gone | A |
| Adown the path where calls my eager mind | B |
| That fate which knows naught but to grip and bind | B |
| Holds me within its grasp a helpless pawn | A |
| And checks my steps when I would travel on | C |
| Forever shall my body lag behind | B |
| And in this Valley with the Moaning Wind | B |
| Must I abide with never a glimpse of dawn | A |
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| Though bends my body toward the yawning sod | D |
| I can endure the pain the sorrows rife | E |
| That hold me fast beneath their chastening rod | D |
| If from this turmoil and this endless strife | E |
| Comes there a light to lead Man nearer God | D |
| And guide his footsteps toward the Larger Life | E |
Joseph Seamon Cotter
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