To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDEFGHBIJI KLKMNNMOPQLRQS RDRTUUTVVWXIWI YZYA2B2B2A2C2C2D2ZE2 D2E2| OH God where hast thou hidden Truth Oh Truth | A |
| Where is the road to God | B |
| Lo we that should be old have learned our youth | A |
| We are not manly ripe we have not dower | C |
| Of all the wisdom that a world can gain | D |
| In the centuries of work peace war hope pain | D |
| We are not strong with all the gathered power | E |
| From age to age left our inheritance | F |
| We stand not near the goal there by the advance | G |
| Of step on step through mire and blood and tears | H |
| Forgotten fathers trod | B |
| We are new in a new world where shall we know | I |
| Where in the ancient years | J |
| Sign marks to guide us on the way we go | I |
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| We are new in a new world As children learn | K |
| Life by surprise and doubt | L |
| So life must learn itself at each return | K |
| Of the upsoaring Phoenix birth from sleep | M |
| Among the ashes of an ended Past | N |
| In its own strength and singly from the last | N |
| Each age's long To day begins to creep | M |
| In baby paces whitherward it goes | O |
| And from too far with too unsure a close | P |
| Like void sonorous echoes in the hill | Q |
| Yesterday's voice rings out | L |
| So gives the questioning turmoil of our cries | R |
| Answer such as we will | Q |
| Has Past writ Present in its histories | S |
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| Our fathers saw we see not with their eyes | R |
| Knew and we learned in vain | D |
| We seek old wisdoms in a novel wise | R |
| We toil beginners of the things that are | T |
| Like lessons which we early get by rote | U |
| Heedless of meaning in the words we quote | U |
| And by and by the schoolroom left afar | T |
| Discern at last their sense or find a new | V |
| The just the unjust the counterfeit the true | V |
| We said from books upon our fathers' shelves | W |
| All must be learned again | X |
| We children like still wondering as we grow | I |
| Change and become ourselves | W |
| And only as ourselves can henceforth know | I |
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| How shall we know what must we do what be | Y |
| Answer us Life instead | Z |
| Past speaks us a dead tongue we look to thee | Y |
| And know thee teacher yet a tardy one | A2 |
| For now we labour fearing to what end | B2 |
| We journey dimly seeing where we tend | B2 |
| We do and question was it rightly done | A2 |
| Doubt and distrust of self beside us stand | C2 |
| And who will find us Truth where is her hand | C2 |
| To guide us on or back by the round path | D2 |
| Leading but whence it led | Z |
| She travels on from God to reach him by | E2 |
| What is the name she hath | D2 |
| To find her by to day Life make reply | E2 |
Augusta Davies Webster
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