The Last Day (excerpt) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEFGGHHIIIIFF IIJJ| Sooner or later in some future date | A |
| A dreadful secret in the book of Fate | A |
| This hour for aught all human wisdom knows | B |
| Or when ten thousand harvests more have rose | B |
| When scenes are chang'd on this revolving Earth | C |
| Old empires fall and give new empires birth | C |
| While other Bourbons rule in other lands | D |
| And if man's sin forbids not other Annes | D |
| While the still busy world is treading o'er | E |
| The paths they trod five thousand years before | F |
| Thoughtless as those who now life's mazes run | G |
| Of earth dissolv'd or an extinguish'd sun | G |
| Ye sublunary worlds awake awake | H |
| Ye rulers of the nation hear and shake | H |
| Thick clouds of darkness shall arise on day | I |
| In sudden night all Earth's dominions lay | I |
| Impetuous winds the scatter'd forests rend | I |
| Eternal mountains like their cedars bend | I |
| The valleys yawn the troubled ocean roar | F |
| And break the bondage of his wonted shore | F |
| A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread | I |
| Darkness the circle of the sun invade | I |
| From inmost Heaven incessant thunders roll | J |
| And the strong echo bound from pole to pole | J |
Edward Young
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