One By One Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MAMANN| Little by little and one by one | A |
| Out of the ether were worlds created | B |
| Star and planet and sea and sun | A |
| All in the nebulous Nothing waited | B |
| Till the Nameless One Who has many a name | C |
| Called them to being and forth they came | C |
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| All things mighty and all things small | D |
| Stone and flower and sentient being | E |
| Each is an answer to that one call | D |
| A part of Himself that His will is freeing | E |
| Freeing to go on the long long way | F |
| That winds back home at the end of the day | F |
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| Little by little does mortal man | G |
| Build his castles for joy and glory | H |
| And one by one time shatters each plan | G |
| And lowers his palaces story by story | H |
| Story by story till earth is just | I |
| A row of graves in the lowly dust | I |
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| One by one whatever was called | J |
| Must be called back to the primal Centre | K |
| Let no soul tremble or be appalled | J |
| For the heart of the Maker is where we enter | K |
| Is where we enter to gain new force | L |
| Before we are sent on another course | L |
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| And one by one as He calls us back | M |
| We shall find the souls that we loved with passion | A |
| In the great way stations along the track | M |
| And clasp them again in the old sweet fashion | A |
| In the old sweet fashion when earth we trod | N |
| And journey along with them up to God | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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