Change Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGFHGIDJKCLMENO MPQMRSTULQVWXYGZMGA2 MB2DC2MD2E2GGGF2 MG2DETZMNH2YI2J2K2L2 M2N XN2O2MK2SP2| Change is the order of the universe | A |
| Worlds wax and wane suns die and stars are born | B |
| Two atoms of cosmic dust unite cohere | C |
| And lo the building of a world begun | D |
| On all things high or low or great or small | E |
| Earth ocean mountain mammoth midge and man | F |
| On mind and matter lo perpetual change | G |
| God's fiat stamped The very bones of man | F |
| Change as he grows from infancy to age | H |
| His loves his hates his tastes his fancies change | G |
| His blood and brawn demand a change of food | I |
| His mind as well the sweetest harp of heaven | D |
| Were hateful if it played the selfsame tune | J |
| Forever and the fairest flower that gems | K |
| The garden if it bloomed throughout the year | C |
| Would blush unsought The most delicious fruits | L |
| Pall on our palate if we taste too oft | M |
| And Hyblan honey turns to bitter gall | E |
| Perpetual winter is a reign of gloom | N |
| Perpetual summer hardly pleases more | O |
| Behold the Esquimau the Hottentot | M |
| This doomed to regions of perpetual ice | P |
| And that to constant summer's heat and glow | Q |
| Inferior both both gloomy and unblessed | M |
| The home of happiness and plenty lies | R |
| Where autumn follows summer and the breath | S |
| Of spring melts into rills the winter's snows | T |
| How gladly after summer's blazing suns | U |
| We hail the autumn frosts and autumn fruits | L |
| How blithesome seems the fall of feathery snow | Q |
| When winter comes with merry clang of bells | V |
| And after winter's reign of ice and storm | W |
| How glad we hail the robins of the spring | X |
| For God hath planted in the hearts of men | Y |
| The love of change and sown the seeds of change | G |
| In earth and air and sea and shoreless space | Z |
| Day follows night and night the dying day | M |
| And every day and every hour is change | G |
| From when on dewy hills the rising dawn | A2 |
| Sprinkles her mists of silver in the east | M |
| Till in the west the golden dust up wheels | B2 |
| Behind the chariot of the setting sun | D |
| From when above the hills the evening star | C2 |
| Sparkles a diamond 'mong the grains of gold | M |
| Until her last faint flicker on the sea | D2 |
| The voices of the hoar and hurrying years | E2 |
| Cry from the silence Change perpetual Change | G |
| Man's heart responding throbs Perpetual Change | G |
| And grinds like a mill stone wanting grists of change | G |
| It grinds and grinds upon its troubled self | F2 |
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| Behold the flowers that spring and bloom and fade | M |
| Behold the blooming maid the song of larks | G2 |
| Is in her warbling throat the blue of heaven | D |
| Is in her eyes her loosened tresses fall | E |
| A shower of gold on shoulders tinged with rose | T |
| Her form a seraph's and her gladsome face | Z |
| A benediction Lo beneath her feet | M |
| The loving crocus bursts in sudden bloom | N |
| Fawn eyed and full of gentleness she moves | H2 |
| A sunbeam on the lawn The hearts of men | Y |
| Follow her footsteps He whose sinewy arms | I2 |
| Might burst through bars of steel like bands of straw | J2 |
| Caught in the net of her unloosened hair | K2 |
| A helpless prisoner lies and loves his chains | L2 |
| Blow ye soft winds from sandal shaded isle | M2 |
| And bring the mogra's breath and orange bloom | N |
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| Fly fleet winged doves to Ponce de Leon's spring | X |
| And in your bills bring her the pearls of youth | N2 |
| For lo the fingers of relentless Time | O2 |
| Weave threads of silver in among the gold | M |
| And seam her face with pain and carking care | K2 |
| Till bent and bowed the shriveled hands of Death | S |
| Reach from the welcome grave and draw her in | P2 |
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