Duncan Campbell Scott

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The Builder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEFFDGGHHCCCCHI HHJJCCKALKCGGHLCMM

WHEN the deep cunning architectA
Had the great minster plannedB
They worked in faith for twice two hundred yearsC
And reared the building grandB
War came and famine and they did not falterD
But held his lineE
And filled the space divineE
With carvings meet for the soul's eyeF
And not alone the chantry and therebyF
The snowy altarD
But in every partG
They carved the minster after his own heartG
And made the humblest places fairH
Even the dimmest cloister way and stairH
With vineyard tendrilsC
With ocean seeming shellsC
With filmy weeds from seaC
With bell flowers delicate and bellsC
All done minute with excellent traceryH
Come O my soulI
And let me build thee like the minster fairH
Deep based and large as airH
And full of hidden graces wroughtJ
In faith and infinite thoughtJ
Till all thy dimmest waysC
Shall gleam with little vines and fruits of praiseC
So that one dayK
The consummate ArchitectA
Who planned the souls that we are set to buildL
May pause and sayK
How curiously wrought is thisC
The builder followed well My thought My chartG
And worked for Me not for the world's wild heartG
Here are the outward virtues trueH
But see how all the inner parts are filledL
With singular blissC
Set it asideM
I shall come here again at eventideM

Duncan Campbell Scott



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