Civilisation Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCDEED| One moment mankind rides the crested wave | A |
| A moment glorious beyond recall | B |
| And then the wave with slow and massive fall | B |
| Obliterates the beauty that it gave | A |
| When discrowned king and manumitted slave | A |
| Are free and equal to be slaves of all | B |
| Democracies in their wide freedom brawl | B |
| And go down shouting to a common grave | A |
| So one by one the petals of the rose | C |
| Shrivel and fade and all its splendour goes | C |
| Back to the earth and in her arms embraced | D |
| Through wintry centuries the dead seeds sleep | E |
| Till spring comes troubling them and they unleap | E |
| Once more their petals on the world to waste | D |
Arthur Henry Adams
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