What Of It Then Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDDCEFGHIIFHGI J IIIKKLLMLNMMNOPQPOQQ RPRII| Well 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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