Unexpressed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEE| Deep in my heart that aches with the repression | A |
| And strives with plenitude of bitter pain | B |
| There lives a thought that clamors for expression | A |
| And spends its undelivered force in vain | B |
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| What boots it that some other may have thought it | C |
| The right of thoughts' expression is divine | D |
| The price of pain I pay for it has bought it | C |
| I care not who lays claim to it 't is mine | D |
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| And yet not mine until it be delivered | E |
| The manner of its birth shall prove the test | F |
| Alas alas my rock of pride is shivered | E |
| I beat my brow the thought still unexpressed | E |
Paul Laurence Dunbar
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