A New Century Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDCDCD| An age too great for thought of ours to scan | A |
| A wave upon the sleepless sea of time | B |
| That sinks and sleeps for ever ere the chime | B |
| Pass that salutes with blessing not with ban | A |
| The dark year dead the bright year born for man | A |
| Dies all its days that watched man cower and climb | B |
| Frail as the foam and as the sun sublime | B |
| Sleep sound as they that slept ere these began | A |
| Our mother earth whose ages none may tell | C |
| Puts on no change time bids not her wax pale | D |
| Or kindle quenched or quickened when the knell | C |
| Sounds and we cry across the veering gale | D |
| Farewell and midnight answers us Farewell | C |
| Hail and the heaven of morning answers Hail | D |
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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