The Worker And The Work Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IJJI KLLK MDDM NOON PQQP CRRC| In what I do I note the marring flaw | A |
| The imperfections of the work I see | B |
| Nor am I one who rather DO than BE | B |
| Since its reversal is Creation's law | A |
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| Nay since there lies a better and a worse | C |
| A lesser and a larger in men's view | D |
| I would be better than the thing I do | D |
| As God is greater than His universe | C |
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| He shaped Himself before He shaped one world | E |
| A million eons toiling day and night | F |
| He built Himself to majesty and might | F |
| Before the planets into space were hurled | E |
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| And when Creation's early work was done | G |
| What crude beginnings out of chaos came | H |
| A formless nebula a wavering flame | H |
| An errant comet a voracious sun | G |
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| And still unable to perfect His plan | I |
| What awful creatures at His touch found birth | J |
| Those protoplasmic monsters of the earth | J |
| That owned the world before He fashioned Man | I |
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| And now behold the poor unfinished state | K |
| Of this His latest masterpiece Then why | L |
| Seeing the flaws in my own work should I | L |
| Be troubled that no voice proclaims it great | K |
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| Before me lie the cycling rounds of years | M |
| With this small earth will die the thing I do | D |
| The thing I am goes journeying onward through | D |
| A million lives upon a million spheres | M |
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| My work I build as best I can and may | N |
| Knowing all mortal effort ends in dust | O |
| I build myself not as I may but must | O |
| Knowing or good or ill that self must stay | N |
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| Along the ages out and on afar | P |
| Its journey leads and must perforce be made | Q |
| Likewise its choice with things of shame and shade | Q |
| Or up the path of light from star to star | P |
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| When all these solar systems shall disperse | C |
| Perchance this labour and this self control | R |
| May find reward and my completed soul | R |
| Will fling in space a little universe | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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