Sic Transit Gloria Mundi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDB ECFC CCGC HIJI CKLK LMLM| Conquerors leonine lordly | A |
| Princes and vaunting kings | B |
| Ye are drunk with the sound of your braggart | C |
| trumps | D |
| But lo ye are little things | B |
| - | |
| Earth it is charnel with monarchs | E |
| And the puffs of dust that start | C |
| Where your war steeds stamp with their ringing hoofs | F |
| Were each some warrior's heart | C |
| - | |
| Peoples imperial mighty | C |
| Masterful challenging fate | C |
| The tread of your cohorts shakes the hills | G |
| But lo ye are not great | C |
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| Nations that swarm and murmur | H |
| Ye are moths that flutter and climb | I |
| Ye are whirling gnats ye are swirling bees | J |
| Tossed in the winds of time | I |
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| Earth that is flushed with glory | C |
| A marvelous world ye are | K |
| But lo in the midst of a million stars | L |
| Ye are only one pale star | K |
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| A breath stirs the dark abysses | L |
| The deeps below the deep | M |
| Are troubled and vexed and a thousand worlds | L |
| Fall on eternal sleep | M |
Don Marquis
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