The Cross Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF DDDD GHGH IHIH DJDJ| The cross I bear no man shall know | A |
| No man can ease the cross I bear | B |
| Alas the thorny path of woe | A |
| Up the steep hill of care | B |
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| There is no word to comfort me | C |
| No sign to help my bended head | D |
| Deep night lies over land and sea | C |
| And silence dark and dread | D |
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| To strive it seems that I was born | E |
| For that which others shall obtain | F |
| The disappointment and the scorn | E |
| Alone for me remain | F |
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| One half my life is overpast | D |
| The other half I contemplate | D |
| Meseems the past doth but forecast | D |
| A darker future state | D |
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| Sick to the heart of that which makes | G |
| Me hope and struggle and desire | H |
| The aspiration here that aches | G |
| With ineffectual fire | H |
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| While inwardly I know the lack | I |
| The insufficiency of power | H |
| Each past day's retrospect makes black | I |
| Each morrow's coming hour | H |
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| Now in my youth would I could die | D |
| As others love to live go down | J |
| Into the grave without a sigh | D |
| Oblivious of renown | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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