Unattainable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBCDDDC A EEEFGGGF A HHHIEEEI EEEJEEEK| I | A |
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| What though the soul be tired | B |
| For that to which 'twas fired | B |
| The far dear still desired | B |
| Beyond the heaven's scope | C |
| Beyond us and above us | D |
| The thing we would have love us | D |
| That will know nothing of us | D |
| But only bids us hope | C |
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| II | A |
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| It still behooves us ever | E |
| From loving ne'er to sever | E |
| To love it though it never | E |
| Reciprocate our care | F |
| For love when freely given | G |
| Lets in soft hints of heaven | G |
| In memories that leaven | G |
| Black humors of despair | F |
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| III | A |
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| For in this life diurnal | H |
| All earthly gross infernal | H |
| Conflicts with that eternal | H |
| To make its love as lust | I |
| To rot the fairest flower | E |
| Of thought which is a power | E |
| All happiness to sour | E |
| And burn our eyes with dust | I |
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| IV | - |
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| Believe some power higher | E |
| Breathes in us this desire | E |
| With purpose strange as fire | E |
| And soft though seeming hard | J |
| Who to such starved endeavor | E |
| And wasted love that never | E |
| Seems recompensed forever | E |
| Gives in His way reward | K |
Madison Julius Cawein
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