Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDC EEEFGHHF EEEIEEEJ| What though the heart be tired | A |
| The heart that long aspired | B |
| And one high dream desired | A |
| Beyond attainment's scope | C |
| Beyond our grasp above us | D |
| The dream we would have love us | D |
| That will know nothing of us | D |
| But merely bids us hope | C |
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| Still it behooves us never | E |
| From love and work to sever | E |
| To hold to one endeavor | E |
| And make our dream our care | F |
| For work at dawn and even | G |
| Shapes for the soul a heaven | H |
| Wherein as strong as seven | H |
| Can enter no Despair | F |
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| Work that blows high the fire | E |
| Of hope and heart's desire | E |
| And sings and dreams of higher | E |
| Things than the world's regard | I |
| Work which to long endeavor | E |
| And patient love that never | E |
| Seems recompensed forever | E |
| Gives in its way reward | J |
Madison Julius Cawein
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