For Four Guilds: Ii. The Bridge-builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEE FFGFHIII EEEEFJEJ KLDLIFFF DMNMEFEF DEFEFFEFIn the world's whitest morning | A |
As hoary with hope | B |
The Builder of Bridges | C |
Was priest and was pope | B |
And the mitre of mystery | D |
And the canopy his | E |
Who darkened the chasms | E |
And domed the abyss | E |
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To eastward and westward | F |
Spread wings at his word | F |
The arch with the key stone | G |
That stoops like a bird | F |
That rides the wild air | H |
And the daylight cast under | I |
The highway of danger | I |
The gateway of wonder | I |
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Of his throne were the thunders | E |
That rivet and fix | E |
Wild weddings of strangers | E |
That meet and not mix | E |
The town and the cornland | F |
The bride and the groom | J |
In the breaking of bridges | E |
Is treason and doom | J |
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But he bade us who fashion | K |
The road that can fly | L |
That we build not too heavy | D |
And build not too high | L |
Seeing alway that under | I |
The dark arch's bend | F |
Shine death and white daylight | F |
Unchanged to the end | F |
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Who walk on his mercy | D |
Walk light as he saith | M |
Seeing that our life | N |
Is a bridge above death | M |
And the world and its gardens | E |
And hills as ye heard | F |
Are born above space | E |
On the wings of a bird | F |
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Not high and not heavy | D |
Is building of his | E |
When ye seal up the flood | F |
And forget the abyss | E |
When your towers are uplifted | F |
Your banners unfurled | F |
In the breaking of bridges | E |
Is the end of the world | F |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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