Zimbabwe Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCACA DEDEEFEG HIJKIDID

The ruined Gold Cities of Rhodesia The Ophir of ScriptureA
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Into the darkness whence they cameB
They passed their country knoweth noneC
They and their gods without a nameB
Partake the same oblivionC
Their work they did their work is doneC
Whose gold it may be shone like fireA
About the brows of SolomonC
And in the House of God's DesireA
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Hence came the altar all of goldD
The hinges of the Holy PlaceE
The censer with the fragrance rolledD
Skyward to seek Jehovah's faceE
The golden Ark that did encaseE
The Law within JerusalemF
The lilies and the rings to graceE
The High Priest's robe and diademG
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The pestilence the desert spearH
Smote them they passed with none to tellI
The names of them who laboured hereJ
Stark walls and crumbling crucibleK
Strait gates and graves and ruined wellI
Abide dumb monuments of oldD
We know but that men fought and fellI
Like us like us for love of GoldD

Andrew Lang



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