Nothing Remains Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDE AFAFGEHE CIAIJEJE KLKLDMDME| Nothing remains of unrecorded ages | A |
| That lie in the silent cemetery time | B |
| Their wisdom may have shamed our wisest sages | C |
| Their glory may have been indeed sublime | B |
| How weak do seem our strivings after power | D |
| How poor the grandest efforts of our brains | E |
| If out of all we are in one short hour | D |
| Nothing remains | E |
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| Nothing remains but the Eternal Spaces | A |
| Time and decay uproot the forest trees | F |
| Even the mighty mountains leave their places | A |
| And sink their haughty heads beneath strange seas | F |
| The great earth writhes in some convulsive spasms | G |
| And turns the proudest cities into plains | E |
| The level sea becomes a yawning chasm | H |
| Nothing remains | E |
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| Nothing remains but the Eternal Forces | C |
| The sad seas cease complaining and grow dry | I |
| Rivers are drained and altered in their courses | A |
| Great stars pass out and vanish from the sky | I |
| Ideas die and old religions perish | J |
| Our rarest pleasures and our keenest pains | E |
| Are swept away with all we hate or cherish | J |
| Nothing remains | E |
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| Nothing remains but the Eternal Nameless | K |
| And all creative spirit of the Law | L |
| Uncomprehended comprehensive blameless | K |
| Invincible resistless with no flaw | L |
| So full of love it must create for ever | D |
| Destroying that it may create again | M |
| Persistent and perfecting in endeavour | D |
| It yet must bring forth angels after men | M |
| This this remains | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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