Courage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGF IDJD KLKL MNMN| True we must tame our rebel will | A |
| True we must bow to Nature's law | B |
| Must bear in silence many an ill | A |
| Must learn to wait renounce withdraw | B |
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| Yet now when boldest wills give place | C |
| When Fate and Circumstance are strong | D |
| And in their rush the human race | C |
| Are swept like huddling sheep along | D |
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| Those sterner spirits let me prize | E |
| Who though the tendence of the whole | F |
| They less than us might recognize | E |
| Kept more than us their strength of soul | F |
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| Yes be the second Cato prais'd | G |
| Not that he took the course to die | H |
| But that when 'gainst himself he rais'd | G |
| His arm he rais'd it dauntlessly | F |
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| And Byron let us dare admire | I |
| If not thy fierce and turbid song | D |
| Yet that in anguish doubt desire | J |
| Thy fiery courage still was strong | D |
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| The sun that on thy tossing pain | K |
| Did with such cold derision shine | L |
| He crush'd thee not with his disdain | K |
| He had his glow and thou hadst thine | L |
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| Our bane disguise it as we may | M |
| Is weakness is a faltering course | N |
| Oh that past times could give our day | M |
| Join'd to its clearness of their force | N |
Matthew Arnold
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