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 yokeA
Of the world's neglect and the smokeA
Of doubt blown into your eyes make night of your roadB
And the sting of the goadB
The merciless goad of scornC
And the rise and fallD
Of the whip of necessity gallD
Till your heart forlornC
Indignant in rage would rebelE
And your bosom fillF
And sobbingly swellG
With bitterness yea against God and 'gainst FateH
Fate and the world of menI
What of it thenI
Let it be as it willF
If you labor and waitH
You too will arrive and the end for you too will be wellG
What of it then say I yea what of it thenI
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Well what of it then if the hate of the world and of menI
Make wreck of your dreams againI
What of it thenI
If contumely and sneerK
And ignorant jibe and jeerK
Be heaped upon all that you do and dreamL
And the irresistible streamL
Of events overwhelm and submergeM
All effort or so it may seemL
Not all not all shall be lostN
Not all in the merciless gurgeM
And pitiless surgeM
Though you see it tempestuously tostN
Though you see it sink down or sweep byO
Not in vain did you strive not in vainP
The struggle the longing and toilQ
Of hand and of heart and of brainP
Not in vain was it all say IO
For out of the wild turmoilQ
And seething and soilQ
Of Time some part of the whole will ariseR
Arise and remainP
In spite of the wrath of the skiesR
And the hate of menI
What of it then say I yea what of it thenI

Madison Julius Cawein



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