Science Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHDEI EEEJKEELMECDNEE EEOEPEE QRESTUVEEWX| Alone I climb the steep ascending path | A |
| Which leads to knowledge In the babbling throngs | B |
| That hurry after shouting to the world | C |
| Small fragments of large truths there is not one | D |
| Who comprehends my purpose or who sees | E |
| The ultimate great goal Why even she | F |
| My heaven intended Spouse my other self | G |
| Religion turns her beauteous face on me | F |
| With hatred in the eyes where love should dwell | H |
| While those who call me Master blindly run | D |
| Wounding the ear of Faith with blasphemies | E |
| And making useless slaughter in my name | I |
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| Mine is the difficult slow task to blaze | E |
| A road of Facts through labyrinths of dreams | E |
| To tear down Maybe and establish IS | E |
| And substitute I Know for I Believe | J |
| I follow closely where the Seers have led | K |
| But that intangible dim path of theirs | E |
| Which may be trodden but by other Seers | E |
| I seek to render solid for the feet | L |
| Of all mankind With reverent hands I lift | M |
| The mask from Mystery and show the face | E |
| Of Reason smiling bravely on the world | C |
| The visions of the prophets one by one | D |
| Grew visible beneath my tireless touch | N |
| And the white secrets of elusive stars | E |
| I tell aloud to listening multitudes | E |
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| To fit the better world my toil ensures | E |
| Time will impregnate with a better race | E |
| The Future's womb and when the hour is ripe | O |
| To ready eyes of men the alien spheres | E |
| Shall seem as friendly neighbours and my skill | P |
| Shall make their music audible to ears | E |
| Which will be tuned to those high harmonies | E |
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| Mine is the work to fashion step by step | Q |
| The shining Way that leads from man to God | R |
| Though I demolish obstacles of creeds | E |
| And blast tradition from the face of earth | S |
| My hand shall open wide the door of Truth | T |
| Whose other name is Faith and at the end | U |
| Of this most holy labour I shall turn | V |
| To see Religion with enlightened eyes | E |
| Seeking the welcome of my outstretched arms | E |
| While all the world stands hushed and awed before | W |
| The proven splendour of the Fact Supreme | X |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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