A Memorial Of Africa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEEDFF A GHHGGHHGIJJIIJ| I | A |
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| Upon a rock I sat a mountain side | B |
| Far far forsaken of the old sea's lip | C |
| A rock where ancient waters' rise and dip | C |
| Recoil and plunge eddy and oscillant tide | B |
| Had worn and worn while races lived and died | B |
| Involved channels Where the sea weed's drip | C |
| Followed the ebb now crumbling lichens sip | C |
| Sparse dews of heaven that down with sunset slide | B |
| I sat long gazing southward A dry flow | D |
| Of withering wind sucked up my drooping strength | E |
| Itself weak from the desert's burning length | E |
| Behind me piled away and up did go | D |
| Great sweeps of savage mountains up away | F |
| Where snow gleams ever panthers roam they say | F |
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| II | A |
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| This infant world has taken long to make | G |
| Nor hast Thou done with it but mak'st it yet | H |
| And wilt be working on when death has set | H |
| A new mound in some churchyard for my sake | G |
| On flow the centuries without a break | G |
| Uprise the mountains ages without let | H |
| The lichens suck the hard rock's breast they fret | H |
| Years more than past the young earth yet will take | G |
| But in the dumbness of the rolling time | I |
| No veil of silence shall encompass me | J |
| Thou wilt not once forget and let me be | J |
| Rather wouldst thou some old chaotic prime | I |
| Invade and moved by tenderness sublime | I |
| Unfold a world that I thy child might see | J |
George Macdonald
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