A Choice Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDEDCE| THE flood of utter change is loosed A space | A |
| Is ours yet for its coming to prepare | B |
| Shall we build dams with cautious clumsy care | B |
| Or stand with idle hands and frightened face | A |
| And so be whirled all broken from our place | A |
| And perish with the dams we builded there | B |
| Or shall we dig a broad deep channel where | B |
| Most fields may feel the flood's benign embrace | A |
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| Thus turned 'twill be a calm majestic flood | C |
| Of plenty peace and fertilising power | D |
| Whose banks fresh flowers of love and joy shall deck | E |
| Oppose it at the inevitable hour | D |
| Tumultuous black with ruin red with blood | C |
| 'Twill come and you shall have no chance but wreck | E |
Edith Nesbit
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