A Hymn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBB CDCDDD EFEF EE GHGHHH DIDIII IJIJII| Clothed 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| Like mists withdrawn | B |
| Like mists withdrawn | B |
| - | |
| Like clouds withdrawn like driven sands | C |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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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