Cataclysm Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFEG HIHIJKJK LMLMBNBN OPPPQRQR STSTKHKH| We curse our lot we gird at fate | A |
| Like peevish children we complain | B |
| Hope dies and life grows desperate | C |
| Because of ease and pleasures salin | D |
| Because bright fortune fails to smile | E |
| And pamper us as once she used | F |
| But frowns a little for the while | E |
| To bleak despair we are reduced | G |
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| Yet o'er a narrow stretch of sea | H |
| Where lately smiled a city fair | I |
| Falls cataclysmic agony | H |
| And death in horrid shapes is there | I |
| All in an instant men are hurled | J |
| Who knew no foe who earned no blame | K |
| Out of a peaceful sunlit world | J |
| 'Mid shattered homes and seething flame | K |
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| Crazed women roam the littered street | L |
| Seeking their babes with sobbing breath | M |
| They search grim ruins there to meet | L |
| Fresh ghastly evidence of death | M |
| Death creeping death where men have lain | B |
| Trapped 'neath the press of heavy beams | N |
| Waiting thro' hours of nameless pain | B |
| Such as men know in frightful dreams | N |
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| And we complain Poor timid fools | O |
| Because our luxuries grow less | P |
| Each beats his breast and drones and drools | P |
| Of gloom and shattered happiness | P |
| While there by very earth betrayed | Q |
| Forsaken doomed men still are men | R |
| And heroism there displayed | Q |
| Preserves the name of Man again | R |
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| There where the elements conspire | S |
| To end a world at one swift stroke | T |
| Stirred by the flame of that grim pyre | S |
| Divinity in Man awoke | T |
| Here petulant with tears and blame | K |
| We gird against Fate's mild decree | H |
| Who should bow down our heads in shame | K |
| And thank our gods for sanctuary | H |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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