The Real And The Ideal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH GFGFIJIJ KLMLGFGH| I feel I have and who has not | A |
| An inner and outer life | B |
| The one may be a dreary lot | A |
| With sorrow and with suff'ring rife | B |
| While in the other may be found | C |
| A magic world of fancies fair | D |
| Where brightest dreams of joy abound | C |
| And never enters dark despair | D |
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| The life I live may seem to those | E |
| Who gaze upon it outwardly | F |
| A drear existence full of woes | E |
| And never ceasing misery | F |
| But in the mystic life of mind | G |
| Abstracted from earth's things of sense | H |
| Oblivious to my grief I find | G |
| A joy exalted and intense | H |
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| My outward life is prison gloomed | G |
| My life of dreams is fancy free | F |
| The one is ever care consumed | G |
| The other tranquil as can be | F |
| Existence that is sternly real | I |
| As mine would crush the heart with grief | J |
| Were it not that the bright ideal | I |
| With visioned joy imparts relief | J |
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| There's not a joy the world can give | K |
| There's not a bliss the heart has known | L |
| But in the spirit life I live | M |
| I have the power to make my own | L |
| I care not what my actual lot | G |
| While thus sustained my soul can be | F |
| My sorrows shall be all forgot | G |
| In fairest dreams of poesy | H |
Owen Suffolk
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