Morality Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHJKK LMLMNN OPQPKK RSRST| We cannot kindle when we will | A |
| The fire which in the heart resides | B |
| The spirit bloweth and is still | A |
| In mystery our soul abides | B |
| But tasks in hours of insight will'd | C |
| Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd | C |
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| With aching hands and bleeding feet | D |
| We dig and heap lay stone on stone | E |
| We bear the burden and the heat | D |
| Of the long day and wish 'twere done | F |
| Not till the hours of light return | G |
| All we have built do we discern | G |
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| Then when the clouds are off the soul | H |
| When thou dost bask in Nature's eye | I |
| Ask how she view'd thy self control | H |
| Thy struggling task'd morality | J |
| Nature whose free light cheerful air | K |
| Oft made thee in thy gloom despair | K |
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| And she whose censure thou dost dread | L |
| Whose eye thou wast afraid to seek | M |
| See on her face a glow is spread | L |
| A strong emotion on her cheek | M |
| 'Ah child ' she cries 'that strife divine | N |
| Whence was it for it is not mine | N |
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| 'There is no effort on my brow | O |
| I do not strive I do not weep | P |
| I rush with the swift spheres and glow | Q |
| In joy and when I will I sleep | P |
| Yet that severe that earnest air | K |
| I saw I felt it once but where | K |
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| 'I knew not yet the gauge of time | R |
| Nor wore the manacles of space | S |
| I felt it in some other clime | R |
| I saw it in some other place | S |
| 'Twas when the heavenly house I trod | T |
| And lay upon the breast of God ' | - |
Matthew Arnold
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