Scholfield Huxley Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDDEFGHHIEJAKLMNON PQA| God ask me not to record your wonders | A |
| I admit the stars and the suns | B |
| And the countless worlds | C |
| But I have measured their distances | D |
| And weighed them and discovered their substances | D |
| I have devised wings for the air | E |
| And keels for water | F |
| And horses of iron for the earth | G |
| I have lengthened the vision you gave me a million times | H |
| And the hearing you gave me a million times | H |
| I have leaped over space with speech | I |
| And taken fire for light out of the air | E |
| I have built great cities and bored through the hills | J |
| And bridged majestic waters | A |
| I have written the Iliad and Hamlet | K |
| And I have explored your mysteries | L |
| And searched for you without ceasing | M |
| And found you again after losing you | N |
| In hours of weariness | O |
| And I ask you | N |
| How would you like to create a sun | P |
| And the next day have the worms | Q |
| Slipping in and out between your fingers | A |
Edgar Lee Masters
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