Alas! What Boots The Long Laborious Quest Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCADA| ALAS what boots the long laborious quest | A |
| Of moral prudence sought through good and ill | B |
| Or pains abstruse to elevate the will | B |
| And lead us on to that transcendent rest | A |
| Where every passion shall the sway attest | A |
| Of Reason seated on her sovereign hill | B |
| What is it but a vain and curious skill | B |
| If sapient Germany must lie deprest | A |
| Beneath the brutal sword Her haughty Schools | C |
| Shall blush and may not we with sorrow say | D |
| A few strong instincts and a few plain rules | C |
| Among the herdsmen of the Alps have wrought | A |
| More for mankind at this unhappy day | D |
| Then all the pride of intellect and thought | A |
William Wordsworth
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