The Rarity Of Genius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDABBEFGHFGH| While yet my lip was breathing youth's first breath | A |
| I all too young to know their deepest spell | B |
| I saw Medea and Ph dra in Rachel | C |
| Later I saw the great Elizabeth | D |
| Rachel Ristori we shall speak with death | A |
| Ere we meet souls like these In one age dwell | B |
| Not many such a century shall tell | B |
| Its hundred beads before it braid a wreath | E |
| For two so queenly foreheads If it take | F |
| ons to form a diamond grain on grain | G |
| ons to crystallize its fire and dew | H |
| By what slow processes must Nature make | F |
| Her Shakespeares and her Raffaels Great the gain | G |
| If she spoil millions making one or two | H |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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