What Are Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJIKLIIMMNO NPMIQII| What is our innocence | A |
| what is our guilt All are | B |
| naked none is safe And whence | C |
| is courage the unanswered question | D |
| the resolute doubt | E |
| dumbly calling deafly listening that | F |
| in misfortune even death | G |
| encourage others | H |
| and in its defeat stirs | H |
| the soul to be strong He | I |
| sees deep and is glad who | J |
| accedes to mortality | I |
| and in his imprisonment rises | K |
| upon himself as | L |
| the sea in a chasm struggling to be | I |
| free and unable to be | I |
| in its surrendering | M |
| finds its continuing | M |
| So he who strongly feels | N |
| behaves The very bird | O |
| grown taller as he sings steels | N |
| his form straight up Though he is captive | P |
| his mighty singing | M |
| says satisfaction is a lowly | I |
| thing how pure a thing is joy | Q |
| This is mortality | I |
| this is eternity | I |
Marianne Moore
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