Builders Of Ruins Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABA CDCEC FGFGF HIHIH AGAJA KGKGK FCFCF ICLCI MGMGM NFNFF FFFFF OFOFO| We build with strength and deep tower wall | A |
| That shall be shattered thus and thus | B |
| And fair and great are court and hall | A |
| But how fair this is not for us | B |
| Who know the lack that lurks in all | A |
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| We know we know how all too bright | C |
| The hues are that our painting wears | D |
| And how the marble gleams too white | C |
| We speak in unknown tongues the years | E |
| Interpret everything aright | C |
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| And crown with weeds our pride of towers | F |
| And warm our marble through with sun | G |
| And break our pavements through with flowers | F |
| With an Amen when all is done | G |
| Knowing these perfect things of ours | F |
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| O days we ponder left alone | H |
| Like children in their lonely hour | I |
| And in our secrets keep your own | H |
| As seeds the color of the flower | I |
| To day they are not all unknown | H |
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| The stars that 'twixt the rise and fall | A |
| Like relic seers shall one by one | G |
| Stand musing o'er our empty hall | A |
| And setting moons shall brood upon | J |
| The frscoes of our inward wall | A |
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| And when some midsummer shall be | K |
| Hither shall come some little one | G |
| Dusty with bloom of flowers is he | K |
| Sit on a ruin i' the late long sun | G |
| And think one foot upon his knee | K |
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| And where they wrought these lives of ours | F |
| So many worded many souled | C |
| A north west wind will take the towers | F |
| And dark with color sunny and cold | C |
| Will range alone among the flowers | F |
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| And here or there at our desire | I |
| The little clamorous owl shall sit | C |
| Through her still time and we aspire | L |
| To make a law and know not it | C |
| Unto the life of a wild briar | I |
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| Our purpose is distinct and dear | M |
| Though from our open eyes 'tis hidden | G |
| Thou time to come shall make it clear | M |
| Undoing our work we are children chidden | G |
| With pity and smiles of many a year | M |
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| We shall allot the praise and guess | N |
| What part is yours and what is ours | F |
| O years that certainly will bless | N |
| Our flowers with fruits our seeds with flowers | F |
| With ruin all our perfectness | F |
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| Be patient Time of our delays | F |
| Too happy hopes and wasted fears | F |
| Our faithful ways our wilful ways | F |
| Solace our labors O our seers | F |
| The seasons and our bards the days | F |
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| And make our pause and silence brim | O |
| With the shrill children's play and sweets | F |
| Of those pathetic flowers and dim | O |
| Of those eternal flowers my Keats | F |
| Dying felt growing over him | O |
Alice Meynell
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