It May Be Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDEFFGHHG IIJJKKLL MNMNOOJMMJPP ABC| Let us be silent for a little while | A |
| Let us be still and listen We may hear | B |
| Echoes from other worlds not far a way | C |
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| City on city rising steeple out topping steeple | D |
| Gaining and hoarding and spending and armies on battle bent | E |
| People and people and people and ever more human people | D |
| This is not all of creation this is not all that was meant | E |
| Earth on its orbit spinning | F |
| This is not end or beginning | F |
| That is but one of a trillion spheres out into the ether hurled | G |
| We move in a zone of wonder | H |
| And over our planet and under | H |
| Are infinite orders of beings and marvels of world on world | G |
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| There may be moving among us curious people and races | I |
| Folk of the fourth dimension folk of the vast star spaces | I |
| They may be trying to reach us | J |
| They may be longing to teach us | J |
| Things we are longing to know | K |
| If it is so | K |
| Voices like these are not heard in earth's riot | L |
| Let us be quiet | L |
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| Classes with classes disputing nation warring with nation | M |
| Building and owning and seeking to lead this is not all | N |
| Endless the works of creation | M |
| There may be waiting our call | N |
| Beings in numberless legions | O |
| Dwellers in rarefied regions | O |
| Journeying Godward like us | J |
| Alist for a word to be spoken | M |
| Awatch for a sign or a token | M |
| If it be thus | J |
| How they must grieve at our riotous noise | P |
| And the things we call duties and joys | P |
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| Let us be silent for a little while | A |
| Let us be still and listen We may hear | B |
| Echoes from other worlds not far away | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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