Zimbabwe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCACA DEDEEFEG HIJKIDIDThe ruined Gold Cities of Rhodesia The Ophir of Scripture | A |
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Into the darkness whence they came | B |
They passed their country knoweth none | C |
They and their gods without a name | B |
Partake the same oblivion | C |
Their work they did their work is done | C |
Whose gold it may be shone like fire | A |
About the brows of Solomon | C |
And in the House of God's Desire | A |
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Hence came the altar all of gold | D |
The hinges of the Holy Place | E |
The censer with the fragrance rolled | D |
Skyward to seek Jehovah's face | E |
The golden Ark that did encase | E |
The Law within Jerusalem | F |
The lilies and the rings to grace | E |
The High Priest's robe and diadem | G |
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The pestilence the desert spear | H |
Smote them they passed with none to tell | I |
The names of them who laboured here | J |
Stark walls and crumbling crucible | K |
Strait gates and graves and ruined well | I |
Abide dumb monuments of old | D |
We know but that men fought and fell | I |
Like us like us for love of Gold | D |
Andrew Lang
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