What Of It Then Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCEFGHIIFHGI J IIIKKLLMLNMMNOPQPOQQ RPRIIWell what of it then if your heart be weighed with the yoke | A |
Of the world's neglect and the smoke | A |
Of doubt blown into your eyes make night of your road | B |
And the sting of the goad | B |
The merciless goad of scorn | C |
And the rise and fall | D |
Of the whip of necessity gall | D |
Till your heart forlorn | C |
Indignant in rage would rebel | E |
And your bosom fill | F |
And sobbingly swell | G |
With bitterness yea against God and 'gainst Fate | H |
Fate and the world of men | I |
What of it then | I |
Let it be as it will | F |
If you labor and wait | H |
You too will arrive and the end for you too will be well | G |
What of it then say I yea what of it then | I |
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II | J |
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Well what of it then if the hate of the world and of men | I |
Make wreck of your dreams again | I |
What of it then | I |
If contumely and sneer | K |
And ignorant jibe and jeer | K |
Be heaped upon all that you do and dream | L |
And the irresistible stream | L |
Of events overwhelm and submerge | M |
All effort or so it may seem | L |
Not all not all shall be lost | N |
Not all in the merciless gurge | M |
And pitiless surge | M |
Though you see it tempestuously tost | N |
Though you see it sink down or sweep by | O |
Not in vain did you strive not in vain | P |
The struggle the longing and toil | Q |
Of hand and of heart and of brain | P |
Not in vain was it all say I | O |
For out of the wild turmoil | Q |
And seething and soil | Q |
Of Time some part of the whole will arise | R |
Arise and remain | P |
In spite of the wrath of the skies | R |
And the hate of men | I |
What of it then say I yea what of it then | I |
Madison Julius Cawein
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