Zimbabwe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCACA DEDEEFEG HIJKIDID| The 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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