Sympathy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJK LMNM OPOPQRQR FSFS| 'Mid forces all that work unseen | A |
| And cheer or warm the human breast | B |
| Thou Sympathy hath ever been | C |
| In active power amid the rest | B |
| When raging hate or heedless love | D |
| Aspir'd to rule and reign alone | E |
| Thou still did keep thy place above | D |
| And rul'd serenely from thy throne | E |
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| Thou ever dost assert thy right | F |
| And walkest on thy gentle way | G |
| To rule with mild persuasive might | F |
| But with a strong unconscious sway | G |
| What pow'r thou hast o'er human hearts | H |
| We daily feel we daily see | I |
| For men and women act their parts | H |
| Encourag'd and upheld by thee | I |
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| For in an unseen current runs | J |
| From heart to heart from soul to soul | K |
| Thy force like heat from genial suns | J |
| To permeate and warm the whole | K |
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| Not always tho' to warm and cheer | L |
| At times thy influence is chill | M |
| And checks the noble rage of thought | N |
| As ice can check a flowing rill | M |
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| One cutting word of ours can wilt | O |
| Or blast the young heart's fairest flow'r | P |
| And tumble down air castles built | O |
| By this unseen affection's pow'r | P |
| That man is brave who acts his part | Q |
| 'Mid comrades faithful known and brave | R |
| But braver far is he whose heart | Q |
| Upholds itself upon the wave | R |
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| For men have shrunk with coward fright | F |
| At terrors which they ne'er might feel | S |
| Had Sympathy's strange magic might | F |
| Inspir'd their hearts to face the steel | S |
Thomas Frederick Young
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