The World's Age Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFG HIHI HJHJAKAK| Who will say the world is dying | A |
| Who will say our prime is past | B |
| Sparks from Heaven within us lying | A |
| Flash and will flash till the last | B |
| Fools who fancy Christ mistaken | C |
| Man a tool to buy and sell | D |
| Earth a failure God forsaken | C |
| Anteroom of Hell | D |
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| Still the race of Hero spirits | E |
| Pass the lamp from hand to hand | F |
| Age from age the Words inherits | G |
| 'Wife and Child and Fatherland ' | - |
| Still the youthful hunter gathers | H |
| Fiery joy from wold and wood | I |
| He will dare as dared his fathers | H |
| Give him cause as good | I |
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| While a slave bewails his fetters | H |
| While an orphan pleads in vain | J |
| While an infant lisps his letters | H |
| Heir of all the age's gain | J |
| While a lip grows ripe for kissing | A |
| While a moan from man is wrung | K |
| Know by every want and blessing | A |
| That the world is young | K |
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Charles Kingsley
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