The Seeker Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDCD EFFE GH GH IJJI KLKL MNNM OPCP DQQD RSRS| The creeds he wrought of dream and thought | A |
| Fall from him at the touch of life | B |
| His old gods fail him in the strife | B |
| Withdrawn the heavens he sought | A |
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| Vanished the miracles that led | C |
| The cloud at noon the flame at night | D |
| The vision that he wing'd and sped | C |
| Falls backward baffled from the height | D |
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| Yet in the wreck of these he stands | E |
| Upheld by something grim and strong | F |
| Some stubborn instinct lifts a song | F |
| And nerves him heart and hands | E |
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| He does not dare to call it hope | G |
| It is not aught that seeks reward | H |
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| Nor faith that up some sunward slope | G |
| Runs aureoled to meet its lord | H |
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| It touches something elder far | I |
| Than faith or creed or thought in man | J |
| It was ere yet these lived and ran | J |
| Like light from star to star | I |
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| It touches that stark primal need | K |
| That from unpeopled voids and vast | L |
| Fashioned the first crude childish creed | K |
| And still shall fashion till the last | L |
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| For one word is the tale of men | M |
| They fling their icons to the sod | N |
| And having trampled down a god | N |
| They seek a god again | M |
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| Stripped of his creeds inherited | O |
| Bereft of all his sires held true | P |
| Amid the wreck of visions dead | C |
| He thrills at touch of visions new | P |
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| He wings another Dream for flight | D |
| He seeks beyond the outmost dawn | Q |
| A god he set there and anon | Q |
| Drags that god from the height | D |
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| But aye from ruined faiths and old | R |
| That droop and die fall bruised seeds | S |
| And when new flowers and faiths unfold | R |
| They're lovelier flowers they're kindlier creeds | S |
Don Marquis
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