Voices Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFG B HIJBBE K LMBENO P KNQRGP| Earthquake | A |
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| I am a memory of cosmogony | B |
| That first great hour of travail when the voice | C |
| Of God called suns and systems from the void | D |
| I am the dream He dreams of that last day | E |
| When mountains by the roots shall be plucked up | F |
| And headlong flung into the raging sea | G |
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| Hurricane | B |
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| I am the breath that fills the organ pipes | H |
| When through the vast cathedral of the world | I |
| Death's stormy threnody sweeps wave on wave | J |
| The symboled note that one day will be blown | B |
| By a great angel standing in the sun | B |
| At which the heaven and earth shall pass away | E |
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| Fire | K |
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| I am the letters of that fateful word | L |
| Writ with a flaming sword above the gates | M |
| Of Eden when God spelled the doom of man | B |
| I am the wrath that on the judgment day | E |
| Shall waste the seas and wither up the stars | N |
| And roll the heavens together like a scroll | O |
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| God | P |
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| I am the earthquake hurricane and fire | K |
| Through them I speak with man as through the stars | N |
| The dews the flowers and every gentler thing | Q |
| Some learn my lesson in the paths of peace | R |
| Some con it low at desolation's knee | G |
| Only the fool hath said There is no God | P |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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