Mechanophilus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGFG HIHI JKLK MNMN BOBO PQPQ RSRS| Now first we stand and understand | A |
| And sunder false from true | B |
| And handle boldly with the hand | A |
| And see and shape and do | B |
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| Dash back that ocean with a pier | C |
| Strow yonder mountain flat | D |
| A railway there a tunnel here | E |
| Mix me this Zone with that | D |
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| Bring me my horse my horse my wings | F |
| That I may soar the sky | G |
| For Thought into the outward springs | F |
| I find her with the eye | G |
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| O will she moonlike sway the main | H |
| And bring or chase the storm | I |
| Who was a shadow in the brain | H |
| And is a living form | I |
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| Far as the Future vaults her skies | J |
| From this my vantage ground | K |
| To those still working energies | L |
| I spy nor term nor bound | K |
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| As we surpass our fathers' skill | M |
| Our sons will shame our own | N |
| A thousand things are hidden still | M |
| And not a hundred known | N |
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| And had some prophet spoken true | B |
| Of all we shall achieve | O |
| The wonders were so wildly new | B |
| That no man would believe | O |
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| Meanwhile my brothers work and wield | P |
| The forces of to day | Q |
| And plow the present like a field | P |
| And garner all you may | Q |
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| You what the cultured surface grows | R |
| Dispense with careful hands | S |
| Deep under deep for ever goes | R |
| Heaven over heaven expands | S |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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