For Four Guilds: Ii. The Bridge-builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEEE FFGFHIII EEEEFJEJ KLDLIFFF DMNMEFEF DEFEFFEF| In 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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 |
| - | |
| 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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