Hard Is The Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGH IJKL MFFF HHLN LJLL| Gold vessels of fine wines | A |
| thousands a gallon | B |
| Jade dishes of rare meats | C |
| costing more thousands | D |
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| I lay my chopsticks down | E |
| no more can banquet | F |
| I draw my sword and stare | G |
| wildly about me | H |
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| Ice bars my way to cross | I |
| the Yellow River | J |
| Snows from dark skies to climb | K |
| the T'ai hang mountains | L |
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| At peace I drop a hook | M |
| into a brooklet | F |
| At once I'm in a boat | F |
| but sailing sunward | F |
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| Hard is the journey | H |
| Hard is the journey | H |
| So many turnings | L |
| And now where am I | N |
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| So when a breeze breaks waves | L |
| bringing fair weather | J |
| I set a cloud for sails | L |
| cross the blue oceans | L |
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