The Riddle Of The Sphinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCADEDEFF| From age to age the haggard human train | A |
| Creeps wearily across Time's burning sands | B |
| To look into her face and lift weak hands | B |
| In supplication to the calm disdain | A |
| That crowns her stony brow But all in vain | A |
| The riddle of mortality they try | C |
| Doom speaks still from her unrelenting eye | C |
| Doom deep as passion infinite as pain | A |
| From age to age the voice of Love is heard | D |
| Pleading above the tumult of the throng | E |
| But evermore the inexorable word | D |
| Comes like the tragic burden of a song | E |
| The answer is the same the stern voice saith | F |
| Death yesterday today and still tomorrow Death | F |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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