By Rugged Ways Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFAAGG HHIIJJKK LLMNOOPP| By rugged ways and thro' the night | A |
| We struggle blindly toward the light | A |
| And groping stumbling ever pray | B |
| For sight of long delaying day | B |
| The cruel thorns beside the road | C |
| Stretch eager points our steps to goad | C |
| And from the thickets all about | D |
| Detaining hands reach threatening out | D |
| - | |
| Deliver us oh Lord we cry | E |
| Our hands uplifted to the sky | E |
| No answer save the thunder's peal | F |
| And onward onward still we reel | F |
| Oh give us now thy guiding light | A |
| Our sole reply the lightning's blight | A |
| Vain vain cries one in vain we call | G |
| But faith serene is over all | G |
| - | |
| Beside our way the streams are dried | H |
| And famine mates us side by side | H |
| Discouraged and reproachful eyes | I |
| Seek once again the frowning skies | I |
| Yet shall there come spite storm and shock | J |
| A Moses who shall smite the rock | J |
| Call manna from the Giver's hand | K |
| And lead us to the promised land | K |
| - | |
| The way is dark and cold and steep | L |
| And shapes of horror murder sleep | L |
| And hard the unrelenting years | M |
| But 'twixt our sighs and moans and tears | N |
| We still can smile we still can sing | O |
| Despite the arduous journeying | O |
| For faith and hope their courage lend | P |
| And rest and light are at the end | P |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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