A Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDCDDD EFEF EE GHGHHH DIDIII IJIJIIClothed on with thunder and with steel | A |
And black against the dawn | B |
The whirling armies clash and reel | A |
A wind and they are gone | B |
Like mists withdrawn | B |
Like mists withdrawn | B |
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Like clouds withdrawn like driven sands | C |
Earth's body vanisheth | D |
One solid thing unconquered stands | C |
The ghost that humbles death | D |
All else is breath | D |
All else is breath | D |
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Man rose from out the stinging slime | E |
Half brute and sought a soul | F |
And up the starrier ways of time | E |
Half god unto his goal | F |
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He still must climb | E |
He still must climb | E |
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What though worlds stagger and the suns | G |
Seem shaken in their place | H |
Trust thou the leaping love that runs | G |
Creative over space | H |
Take heart of grace | H |
Take heart of grace | H |
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What though great kingdoms fall on death | D |
Before the stabbing blade | I |
Their brazen might was only breath | D |
Their substance but a shade | I |
Be not dismayed | I |
Be not dismayed | I |
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Man's dream which conquered brute and clod | I |
Shall fail not but endure | J |
Shall rise though beaten to the sod | I |
Shall hold its vantage sure | J |
As sure as God | I |
As sure as God | I |
Don Marquis
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