Attainment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAABCCCB DDDDDDDD EEEDEEED DDDEFFFE EEEFGGGF HAAIGGG| ON the Heights of Great Endeavour | A |
| Where Attainment looms forever | A |
| Toiling upward ceasing never | A |
| Climb the fateful Centuries | B |
| Up the difficult dark places | C |
| Joy and anguish in their faces | C |
| On they strive the living races | C |
| And the dead that no one sees | B |
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| Shape by shape with brow uplifted | D |
| One by one where night is rifted | D |
| Pass the victors many gifted | D |
| Where the heaven opens wide | D |
| While below them fallen or seated | D |
| Mummy like or shadow sheeted | D |
| Stretch the lines of the defeated | D |
| Scattered on the mountainside | D |
| - | |
| And each victor passing wanly | E |
| Gazes on that Presence lonely | E |
| With unmoving eyes where only | E |
| Grow the dreams for which men die | D |
| Grow the dreams the far ethereal | E |
| That on earth assume material | E |
| Attributes and vast imperial | E |
| Rear their battlements on high | D |
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| Kingdoms marble templed towered | D |
| Where the Arts the many dowered | D |
| That for centuries have flowered | D |
| Trampled under War's wild heel | E |
| Lift immortal heads and golden | F |
| Blossoms of the times called olden | F |
| Soul alluring earth withholden | F |
| Universal in appeal | E |
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| As they enter high and lowly | E |
| On the hush these words fall slowly | E |
| 'Ye who kept your purpose holy | E |
| Never dreamed your cause was vain | F |
| Look Behold through time abating | G |
| How the long sad days of waiting | G |
| Striving starving hoping hating | G |
| Helped your spirit to attain | F |
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| 'For to all who dream aspire | H |
| Marry effort to desire | A |
| On the cosmic heights in fire | A |
| Beaconing my form appears | I |
| I am marvel I am morning | G |
| Beauty in man's heart and warning | G |
| On my face none looks with scorning | G |
| And no soul attains who fears ' | - |
Madison Julius Cawein
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