Aspiration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK| God knows I strive against low lust and vice | A |
| Wound in the net of their voluptuous hair | B |
| God knows that all their kisses are as ice | A |
| To me who do not care | B |
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| God knows against the front of Fate I set | C |
| Eyes still and stern and lips as bitter prest | D |
| Raised clenched and ineffectual palms to let | C |
| Her rock like pressing breast | D |
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| God knows what motive such large zeal inspires | E |
| God knows the star for which I climb and crave | F |
| God knows and only God the eating fires | G |
| That in my bosom rave | F |
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| I will not fall I will not thou dost lie | H |
| Deep Hell that seethest in thy simmering pit | I |
| Thy thousand throned horrors shall not vie | H |
| Or ever compass it | I |
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| But as thou sinkest from my soul away | J |
| So shall I rise rolled in the morning's rose | K |
| Beyond this world this life this little day | J |
| God knows God knows God knows | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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