Failure Ii Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CDC EEF GGG HHH IJJ KKK LFF FFF FFF FFF| There are some souls | A |
| Whose lot it is to set their hearts on goals | A |
| That adverse Fate controls | A |
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| While others win | B |
| With little labor through life's dust and din | B |
| And lord like enter in | B |
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| Immortal gates | C |
| And of Success the high born intimates | D |
| Inherit Fame's estates | C |
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| Why is't the lot | E |
| Of merit oft to struggle and yet not | E |
| Attain to toil for what | F |
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| Simply to know | G |
| The disappointment the despair and woe | G |
| Of effort here below | G |
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| Ambitious still to reach | H |
| Those lofty peaks which men aspiring preach | H |
| For which their souls beseech | H |
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| Those heights that swell | I |
| Remote removed and unattainable | J |
| Pinnacle on pinnacle | J |
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| Still yearning to attain | K |
| Their far repose above life's stress and strain | K |
| But all in vain in vain | K |
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| Why hath God put | L |
| Great longings in some souls and straightway shut | F |
| All doors of their clay hut | F |
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| The clay accurst | F |
| That holds achievement back from which immersed | F |
| The spirit may not burst | F |
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| Were it at least | F |
| Not better to have sat at Circe's feast | F |
| If afterwards a beast | F |
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| Than aye to bleed | F |
| To strain and strive to toil in thought and deed | F |
| And nevermore succeed | F |
Madison Julius Cawein
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