Sirius Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBD EFEA GHGI JKJK LMLM NOPO QRQR STST UVUV WXWX BCBD YZYZ| 'Since Sinus crossed the Milky Way sixty thousand years have gone ' GARRETT P SERVISS | A |
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| Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way | B |
| Full sixty thousand years have gone | C |
| Yet hour by hour and day by day | B |
| This tireless star speeds on and on | D |
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| Methinks he must be moved to mirth | E |
| By that droll tale of Genesis | F |
| Which says creation had its birth | E |
| For such a puny world as this | A |
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| To hear how One who fashioned all | G |
| Those Solar Systems tier on tiers | H |
| Expressed in little Adam's fall | G |
| The purpose of a million spheres | I |
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| And witness of the endless plan | J |
| To splendid wrath he must be wrought | K |
| By pigmy creeds presumptuous man | J |
| Sends forth as God's primeval thought | K |
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| Perchance from half a hundred stars | L |
| He hears as many curious things | M |
| From Venus Jupiter and Mars | L |
| And Saturn with the beauteous rings | M |
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| There may be students of the Cause | N |
| Who send their revelations out | O |
| And formulate their codes of laws | P |
| With heavens for faith and hells for doubt | O |
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| On planets old ere form or place | Q |
| Was lent to earth may dwell who knows | R |
| A God like and perfected race | Q |
| That hails great Sirius as he goes | R |
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| In zones that circle moon and sun | S |
| 'Twixt world and world he may see souls | T |
| Whose span of earthly life is done | S |
| Still journeying up to higher goals | T |
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| And on dead planets grey and cold | U |
| Grim spectral souls that harboured hate | V |
| Life after life he may behold | U |
| Descending to a darker fate | V |
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| And on his grand majestic course | W |
| He may have caught one glorious sight | X |
| Of that vast shining central Source | W |
| From which proceeds all Life all Light | X |
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| Since Sirius crossed the Milky Way | B |
| Full sixty thousand years have gone | C |
| No mortal man may bid him stay | B |
| No mortal man may speed him on | D |
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| No mortal mind may comprehend | Y |
| What is beyond what was before | Z |
| To God be glory without end | Y |
| Let man be humble and adore | Z |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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