Ode To Man Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGF HIJI KLML IHNH FOPO| A man is not what oft he seems | A |
| On this terrestrial sphere | B |
| No pow'r to wield no honor'd place | C |
| Oft curb his spirit here | D |
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| He knows not what within him lies | E |
| Until his pow'rs be tried | F |
| And when for them some use is found | G |
| They spring from where they hide | F |
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| To startle and to puzzle him | H |
| Who never knew their force | I |
| Because his unfreed spirit kept | J |
| A low and shackl'd course | I |
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| Dishearten'd and despairing he | K |
| Had often sigh'd alone | L |
| Not thinking that in other ways | M |
| His spirit might have grown | L |
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| Not thinking that another course | I |
| Which needed pluck and vim | H |
| Might raise his drowning spirit high | N |
| And teach it how to swim | H |
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| To battle with the rolling tide | F |
| That hurries onward men | O |
| And raise his head above the waves | P |
| That come and go again | O |
Thomas Frederick Young
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