What Are Years Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHHIJIKLIIMMNO NPMIQIIWhat 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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