Had I The Power That Have The Will Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH| HAD I the power that have the will | A |
| The enfeebled will a modern curse | B |
| This book of mine should blossom still | A |
| A perfect garden ground of verse | B |
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| White placid marble gods should keep | C |
| Good watch in every shadowy lawn | D |
| And from clean easy breathing sleep | C |
| The birds should waken me at dawn | D |
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| A fairy garden none the less | E |
| Throughout these gracious paths of mine | F |
| All day there should be free access | E |
| For stricken hearts and lives that pine | F |
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| And by the folded lawns all day | G |
| No idle gods for such a land | H |
| All active Love should take its way | G |
| With active Labour hand in hand | H |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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