The Victor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGBH IIJJ KKBB EELL BBMM| Thou hast not lived No aim of earth | A |
| Thy body serves nor home nor birth | A |
| No children's eyes look up to thee | B |
| To solace thy mortality | B |
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| Thou hast not lived Forbidden seas | C |
| Shut thee from Beauty's treasuries | C |
| Not for those hungry eyes of thine | D |
| Her marbles gleam her colors shine | D |
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| Thou hast not lived Hast never brought | E |
| To steadfast form thy hidden thought | E |
| Striving to speak thou still art mute | F |
| And fain to bear hast yet no fruit | F |
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| So spake the Tempter at his plot | G |
| But thee my Soul he counted not | G |
| Who mad'st me stand serene and free | B |
| And give him answer dauntlessly | H |
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| Yea shapes of earth are sweet and near | I |
| And home and child are very dear | I |
| Yet do I live to be denied | J |
| These things and still be satisfied | J |
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| Yea Beauty's treasures all are barred | K |
| By one dark hand so spare so hard | K |
| Yet do I live who still can be | B |
| Their lover though I may not see | B |
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| Yea it is true that I have wrought | E |
| No form divine from secret thought | E |
| Yet do I live since fain am I | L |
| To work that marvel ere I die | L |
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| And if I fruitless seem to thee | B |
| Yet hath my God some fruit of me | B |
| Since I can hear thee out and bear | M |
| A spirit still for dreams and prayer | M |
Margaret Steele Anderson
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