To-day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IGIGJKJK| I love this age of energy and force | A |
| Expectantly I greet each pregnant hour | B |
| Emerging from the all creative source | A |
| Supreme with promise imminent with power | B |
| The strident whistle and the clanging bell | C |
| The noise of gongs the rush of motored things | D |
| Are but the prophet voices which foretell | C |
| A time when thought may use unfettered wings | D |
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| Too long the drudgery of earth has been | E |
| A barrier 'twixt man and his own mind | F |
| Remove the stone and lo the Christ within | E |
| For He is there and who so seeks shall find | F |
| The Great Inventor is the Modern Priest | G |
| He paves the pathway to a higher goal | H |
| Once from the grind of endless toil released | G |
| Man will explore the kingdom of his soul | H |
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| And all this restless rush this strain and strife | I |
| This noise and glare is but the fanfarade | G |
| That ushers in the more majestic life | I |
| Where faith shall walk with science unafraid | G |
| I feel the strong vibrations of the earth | J |
| I sense the coming of an hour sublime | K |
| And bless the star that watched above my birth | J |
| And let me live in this important time | K |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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