A Career Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJJ KK LMLL| Break me my bounds and let me fly | A |
| To regions vast of boundless sky | A |
| Nor I like piteous Daphne be | B |
| Root bound Ah no I would be free | B |
| As yon same bird that in its flight | C |
| Outstrips the range of mortal sight | C |
| Free as the mountain streams that gush | D |
| From bubbling springs and downward rush | D |
| Across the serrate mountain's side | E |
| The rocks o'erwhelmed their banks defied | E |
| And like the passions in the soul | F |
| Swell into torrents as they roll | F |
| Oh circumscribe me not by rules | G |
| That serve to lead the minds of fools | G |
| But give me pow'r to work my will | H |
| And at my deeds the world shall thrill | H |
| My words shall rouse the slumb'ring zest | I |
| That hardly stirs in manhood's breast | I |
| And as the sun feeds lesser lights | J |
| As planets have their satellites | J |
| So round about me will I bind | K |
| The men who prize a master mind | K |
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| He lived a silent life alone | L |
| And laid him down when it was done | M |
| And at his head was placed a stone | L |
| On which was carved a name unknown | L |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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