The Burden Of Time Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFGF FHFH IJIJ KLKL MFMF NFNF OFOF CPCP QJQJ IHIH RSRS| Before the seas and mountains were brought forth | A |
| I reigned I hung the universe in space | B |
| I capped earth's poles with ice to South and North | A |
| And set the moving tides their bounds and place | B |
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| I smoothed the granite mountains with my hand | C |
| My fingers gave the continents their form | D |
| I rent the heavens and loosed upon the land | C |
| The fury of the whirlwind and the storm | D |
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| I stretched the dark sea like a nether sky | E |
| Fronting the stars between the ice clad zones | F |
| I gave the deep his thunder the Most High | E |
| Knows well the voice that shakes His mountain thrones | F |
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| I trod the ocean caverns black as night | G |
| And silent as the bounds of outer space | F |
| And where great peaks rose darkly towards the light | G |
| I planted life to root and grow apace | F |
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| Then through a stillness deeper than the grave's | F |
| The coral spires rose slowly one by one | H |
| Until the white shafts pierced the upper waves | F |
| And shone like silver in the tropic sun | H |
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| I ploughed with glaciers down the mountain glen | I |
| And graved the iron shore with stream and tide | J |
| I gave the bird her nest the lion his den | I |
| The snake long jung le grass wherein to hide | J |
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| In lonely gorge and over hill and plain | K |
| I sowed the giant forests of the world | L |
| The great earth like a human heart in pain | K |
| Has quivered with the meteors I have hurled | L |
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| I plunged whole continents beneath the deep | M |
| And left them sepulchred a million years | F |
| I called and lo the drowned lands rose from sleep | M |
| Sundering the waters of the hemispheres | F |
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| I am the lord and arbiter of man | N |
| I hold and crush between my finger tips | F |
| Wild hordes that drive the desert caravan | N |
| Great nations that go down to sea in ships | F |
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| In sovereign scorn I tread the races down | O |
| As each its puny destiny fulfils | F |
| On plain and island or where huge cliffs frown | O |
| Wrapt in the deep thought of the ancient hills | F |
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| The wild sea searches vainly round the land | C |
| For those proud fleets my arm has swept away | P |
| Vainly the wind along the desert sand | C |
| Calls the great names of kings who once held sway | P |
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| Yea Nineveh and Babylon the great | Q |
| Are fallen like ripe ears at harvest tide | J |
| I set my heel upon their pomp and state | Q |
| The people's serfdom and the monarch's pride | J |
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| One doom waits all art speech law gods and men | I |
| Forests and mountains stars and shining sun | H |
| The hand that made them shall unmake again | I |
| I curse them and they wither one by one | H |
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| Waste altars tombs dead cities where men trod | R |
| Shall roll through space upon the darkened globe | S |
| Till I myself be overthrown and God | R |
| Cast off creation like an outworn robe | S |
Frederick George Scott
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