Ode To Duty Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAB CDCDEFGG HIHIJJKL MGMGNNOO PQPQRRSS TUTUBBAA VWVWXXYY ZA2ZA2B2C2DD| Jam non consilio bonus sed more eo perductus ut non tantum | A |
| recte facere possim sed nisi recte facere non possim | A |
| Seneca Letters | B |
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| Stern Daughter of the Voice of God | C |
| O Duty if that name thou love | D |
| Who art a light to guide a rod | C |
| To check the erring and reprove | D |
| Thou who art victory and law | E |
| When empty terrors overawe | F |
| From vain temptations dost set free | G |
| And calm'st the weary strife of frail humanity | G |
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| There are who ask not if thine eye | H |
| Be on them who in love and truth | I |
| Where no misgiving is rely | H |
| Upon the genial sense of youth | I |
| Glad Hearts without reproach or blot | J |
| Who do thy work and know it not | J |
| Oh if through confidence misplaced | K |
| They fail thy saving arms dread Power around them cast | L |
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| Serene will be our days and bright | M |
| And happy will our nature be | G |
| When love is an unerring light | M |
| And joy its own security | G |
| And they a blissful course may hold | N |
| Even now who not unwisely bold | N |
| Live in the spirit of this creed | O |
| Yet seek thy firm support according to their need | O |
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| I loving freedom and untried | P |
| No sport of every random gust | Q |
| Yet being to myself a guide | P |
| Too blindly have reposed my trust | Q |
| And oft when in my heart was heard | R |
| Thy timely mandate I deferred | R |
| The task in smoother walks to stray | S |
| But thee I now would serve more strictly if I may | S |
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| Through no disturbance of my soul | T |
| Or strong compunction in me wrought | U |
| I supplicate for thy control | T |
| But in the quietness of thought | U |
| Me this unchartered freedom tires | B |
| I feel the weight of chance desires | B |
| My hopes no more must change their name | A |
| I long for a repose that ever is the same | A |
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| Stern Lawgiver yet thou dost wear | V |
| The Godhead's most benignant grace | W |
| Nor know we anything so fair | V |
| As is the smile upon thy face | W |
| Flowers laugh before thee on their beds | X |
| And fragrance in thy footing treads | X |
| Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong | Y |
| And the most ancient heavens through Thee are fresh and strong | Y |
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| To humbler functions awful Power | Z |
| I call thee I myself commend | A2 |
| Unto thy guidance from this hour | Z |
| Oh let my weakness have an end | A2 |
| Give unto me made lowly wise | B2 |
| The spirit of self sacrifice | C2 |
| The confidence of reason give | D |
| And in the light of truth thy Bondman let me live | D |
William Wordsworth
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