The Master Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH IJIJKDKD LGLGMHMH NONPNGNG QRQRSHSH TUTUHGHG| In sea and air in leaf and stone | A |
| Where er Truth s magic words are writ | B |
| Where thousands throng or rapt and lone | A |
| Life was his book He pondered it | B |
| Through page of earth and sun and star | C |
| He heard the swift sweep of the Song | D |
| Of Law and Motion streaming far | C |
| Which seemed to sing The world is wrong | D |
| Men passed him by They brushed aside | E |
| The dreamer in his dreams of law | F |
| They laughed and left him open eyed | E |
| Fixed on the point that no man saw | F |
| Life is to scheme to love to play | G |
| Strike out for plunder in the fight | H |
| Our fathers did so answered they | G |
| And they have said The world is right | H |
| - | |
| Men took the baubles at the call | I |
| Men rose to wealth and power and state | J |
| But he the mightiest of them all | I |
| Remained because his heart was great | J |
| The fool cried Life is but a jest | K |
| The schemer Earth is for the strong | D |
| The thoughtless Why think for the rest | K |
| But he cried Nay The world is wrong | D |
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| And friends declined and fortune frowned | L |
| And hope grew dim with health s decay | G |
| The thorns of hardship hedged him round | L |
| But still he toiled from day to day | G |
| From clue to clue from year to year | M |
| From law to law from light to light | H |
| Till came the triumph flashing clear | M |
| The world is wrong and I am right | H |
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| The Laws of Life eternal true | N |
| Swerve not by prayer for that or this | O |
| A Power hath given the world to you | N |
| And ye have made it what it is | P |
| Why see worth perish what accrue | N |
| Why see greed flourish day by day | G |
| A Power hath given the world to you | N |
| And ye can make it what ye may | G |
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| No mourners wept beside his bier | Q |
| Scant homage to his grave was brought | R |
| He left no wealth behind him here | Q |
| Only the splendour of his thought | R |
| And as the brown earth heaping slow | S |
| Shut the rude coffin from the sight | H |
| One who had known him long ago | S |
| Cried After all the world was right | H |
| - | |
| But Thought is king no clowns can bind | T |
| And Genius in its crowning hour | U |
| Sows deep the seed that for Mankind | T |
| Springs centuries hence to splendid flower | U |
| When by that lonely stone of white | H |
| With heads uncovered men shall say | G |
| The world was wrong and he was right | H |
| Who died for what we reap to day | G |
George Essex Evans
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