Questions From A Worker Who Reads Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDGHIJKL MNOP MQRK STUV WX| Who built Thebes of the seven gates | A |
| In the books you will find the names of kings | B |
| Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock | C |
| And Babylon many times demolished | D |
| Who raised it up so many times In what houses | E |
| of gold glittering Lima did the builders live | F |
| Where the evening that the Wall of China was finished | D |
| Did the masons go Great Rome | G |
| Is full of triumphal arches Who erected them Over whom | H |
| Did the Caesars triumph Had Byzantium much praised in song | I |
| Only palaces for its inhabitants Even in fabled Atlantis | J |
| The night the ocean engulfed it | K |
| The drowning still bawled for their slaves | L |
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| The young Alexander conquered India | M |
| Was he alone | N |
| Caesar beat the Gauls | O |
| Did he not have even a cook with him | P |
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| Philip of Spain wept when his armada | M |
| Went down Was he the only one to weep | Q |
| Frederick the Second won the Seven Year's War Who | R |
| Else won it | K |
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| Every page a victory | S |
| Who cooked the feast for the victors | T |
| Every ten years a great man | U |
| Who paid the bill | V |
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| So many reports | W |
| So many questions | X |
Bertolt Brecht
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