The Hour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GHGHII JKJKLL MNMNAA| This is the world's stupendous hour | A |
| The supreme moment for the race | B |
| To see the emptiness of power | A |
| The worthlessness of wealth and place | B |
| To see the purpose and the plan | C |
| Conceived by God for growing man | C |
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| And they who see and comprehend | D |
| That ultimate and lofty aim | E |
| Will wait in patience for the end | D |
| Knowing injustice cannot claim | E |
| One lasting victory or control | F |
| Laws that bar progress for the whole | F |
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| This is an epoch making time | G |
| God thunders through the universe | H |
| A message glorious and sublime | G |
| At once a blessing and a curse | H |
| Blessings for those who seek His light | I |
| Curses for those whose law is might | I |
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| Ephemeral as the sunset glow | J |
| Is human grandeur Mortal life | K |
| Was given that souls might seek and know | J |
| Immortal truths and through the strife | K |
| That shakes the earth from land to land | L |
| The wise shall hear and understand | L |
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| Out of the awful holocaust | M |
| Out of the whirlwind and the flood | N |
| Out of old creeds to Bedlam tossed | M |
| Shall rise a new earth washed in blood | N |
| A new race filled with spirit power | A |
| This is the world's stupendous hour | A |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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