The Chant Of The Colorado Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHIJKJJK BLDLMNNNOPOOP BQNQRRPRESEES| At the Grand Canyon | A |
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| My brother man shapes him a plan | B |
| And builds him a house in a day | C |
| But I have toiled through a million years | D |
| For a home to last alway | E |
| I have flooded the sands and washed them down | F |
| I have cut through gneiss and granite | G |
| No toiler of earth has wrought as I | H |
| Since God's first breath began it | I |
| High mountain buttes I have chiselled to shade | J |
| My wanderings to the sea | K |
| With the wind's aid and the cloud's aid | J |
| Unweary and mighty and unafraid | J |
| I have bodied eternity | K |
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| My brother man builds for a span | B |
| His life is a moment's breath | L |
| But I have hewn for a million years | D |
| Nor a moment dreamt of death | L |
| By moons and stars I have measured my task | M |
| And some from the skies have perished | N |
| But ever I cut and flashed and foamed | N |
| As ever my aim I cherished | N |
| My aim to quarry the heart of earth | O |
| Till in the rock's red rise | P |
| Its age and birth through an awful girth | O |
| Of strata should show the wonder worth | O |
| Of patience to all eyes | P |
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| My brother man builds as he can | B |
| And beauty he adds for his joy | Q |
| But all the hues of sublimity | N |
| My pinnacled walls employ | Q |
| Slow shadows iris them all day long | R |
| And silvery veils soul stilling | R |
| The moon drops down their precipices | P |
| Soft with a spectral thrilling | R |
| For all immutable dreams that sway | E |
| With beauty the earth and air | S |
| Are ever at play by night and day | E |
| My house of eternity to array | E |
| In visions ever fair | S |
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