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 morningA
As hoary with hopeB
The Builder of BridgesC
Was priest and was popeB
And the mitre of mysteryD
And the canopy hisE
Who darkened the chasmsE
And domed the abyssE
-
To eastward and westwardF
Spread wings at his wordF
The arch with the key stoneG
That stoops like a birdF
That rides the wild airH
And the daylight cast underI
The highway of dangerI
The gateway of wonderI
-
Of his throne were the thundersE
That rivet and fixE
Wild weddings of strangersE
That meet and not mixE
The town and the cornlandF
The bride and the groomJ
In the breaking of bridgesE
Is treason and doomJ
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But he bade us who fashionK
The road that can flyL
That we build not too heavyD
And build not too highL
Seeing alway that underI
The dark arch's bendF
Shine death and white daylightF
Unchanged to the endF
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Who walk on his mercyD
Walk light as he saithM
Seeing that our lifeN
Is a bridge above deathM
And the world and its gardensE
And hills as ye heardF
Are born above spaceE
On the wings of a birdF
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Not high and not heavyD
Is building of hisE
When ye seal up the floodF
And forget the abyssE
When your towers are upliftedF
Your banners unfurledF
In the breaking of bridgesE
Is the end of the worldF

Gilbert Keith Chesterton



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