The Song Of The Builder Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFG HBHBII JKJKLL| I sink my piers to the solid rock | A |
| And I send my steel to the sky | B |
| And I pile up the granite block by block | A |
| Full twenty stories high | B |
| Nor wind nor weather shall wash away | C |
| The thing that I've builded day by day | C |
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| Here's something of mine that shall ever stand | D |
| Till another shall tear it down | E |
| Here is the work of my brain and hand | D |
| Towering above the town | E |
| And the idlers gay in their smug content | F |
| Have nothing to leave for a monument | G |
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| Here from my girders I look below | H |
| At the throngs which travel by | B |
| For little that's real will they leave to show | H |
| When it comes their time to die | B |
| But I when my time of life is through | I |
| Will leave this building for men to view | I |
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| Oh the work is hard and the days are long | J |
| But hammers are tools for men | K |
| And granite endures and steel is strong | J |
| Outliving both brush and pen | K |
| And ages after my voice is stilled | L |
| Men shall know I lived by the things I build | L |
Edgar Albert Guest
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