The Chief Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDDCCDHis brow spreads large and placid and his eye | A |
Is deep and bright with steady looks that still | B |
Soft lines of tranquil thought his face fulfill | B |
His face at once benign and proud and shy | A |
If envy scout if ignorance deny | A |
His faultless patience his unyielding will | B |
Beautiful gentleness and splendid skill | B |
Innumerable gratitudes reply | A |
His wise rare smile is sweet with certainties | C |
And seems in all his patients to compel | D |
Such love and faith as failure cannot quell | D |
We hold him for another Herakles | C |
Battling with custom prejudice disease | C |
As once the son of Zeus with Death and Hell | D |
William Ernest Henley
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