Why? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACA DEFEGE CAAADAHAIA CJKJLJAJ| Why is it we grasp at the shadow | A |
| That flits from us swift as thought | B |
| While the real that maketh the shadow | A |
| Stands in our way unsought | A |
| And why do we wonder and wonder | C |
| What's beyond the hill tops of thought | A |
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| Why is it the things that we sigh for | D |
| Are the things that we never can reach | E |
| Why only the sternest experience | F |
| A lession of patience can teach | E |
| And why hold we so careless and lightly | G |
| The treasures that are in our reach | E |
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| Why is it we wait for the future | C |
| Or dwell on the scenes of the past | A |
| Rather than live in the present | A |
| Hastening from us so fast | A |
| Why is it the prizes we toil for | D |
| So tempting in fancy's mould cast | A |
| Prove when to our lips we have pressed them | H |
| Only dead sea apples at last | A |
| And why are the crowns and the crosses | I |
| So wondrous inequally classed | A |
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| Ask it ye over and over | C |
| Let the winds waft your question on high | J |
| Till memory wanes with the ages | K |
| Till the stars in eternity die | J |
| And out from the bloom and the sunshine | L |
| From the rainbow o'erarching the sky | J |
| From the night and the gloom and the tempest | A |
| Echo will answer you Why | J |
Madge Morris Wagner
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