A Passing Voice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA ACCCC CDCDC CDCDC| Turn me a rhyme said Fate | A |
| Turn me a rhyme | B |
| A swift and deadly hate | A |
| Blows headlong towards thee in the teeth of Time | B |
| Write or thy words will fall too late | A |
| - | |
| Write me a fold said Fate | A |
| Write me a fold | C |
| Life to conciliate | C |
| Of words red with thine heart's blood hotly told | C |
| Then kings may envy thine estate | C |
| - | |
| Make thee a fame said Fate | C |
| Make thee a fame | D |
| To storm the heaven hung gate | C |
| Unbarred alone to the victorious name | D |
| Which has Art's conquerors to mate | C |
| - | |
| Die in thy shame said Fate | C |
| Die in thy shame | D |
| Naught here can compensate | C |
| But the proud radiance of that glorious flame | D |
| Genius fade thou unconsecrate | C |
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
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