As The Shifting Sands Of The Desert Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDECEFFE GHGHCIJIKKI LMNMOGCGPPG| As the shifting sands of the desert | A |
| Are born by the simoon's wrath | B |
| And in wanton and fleet confusion | C |
| Are strewn on its trackless path | B |
| So our lives with resistless fury | D |
| Insensibly and unknown | E |
| With a restless vacillation | C |
| By the winds of fate are blown | E |
| But an All Wise Hand | F |
| May have changed the sand | F |
| For a purpose of His own | E |
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| As the troubled and turbulent waters | G |
| As the waves of the angry main | H |
| Respond with their undulations | G |
| To the breath of the hurricane | H |
| So our lives on Time's boundless ocean | C |
| Unwittingly toss and roll | I |
| And unconsciously drift with the current | J |
| Which evades our assumed control | I |
| But a Hand of love | K |
| From the skies above | K |
| May have guided us past a shoal | I |
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| Ephemeral mobile and fleeting | L |
| Our delible paths we tread | M |
| And fade as the crimson sunset | N |
| When the heavens are tinged with red | M |
| As the gorgeously tinted rainbow | O |
| Retains not its varied dyes | G |
| We change with the constant mutation | C |
| Of desert of sea and skies | G |
| But the Hand which made | P |
| Knows each transient shade | P |
| Which passes before the eyes | G |
Alfred Castner King
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