Fame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GHGH IJIJ KIKI LMLM NONP DQFQ RSRS TUTU VFVF WPWP XWXW KYKY ZA2B2A2Dust of the desert are thy walls | A |
And temple towers O Babylon | B |
O'er crumbled halls the lizard crawls | A |
And serpents bask in blaze of sun | C |
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In vain kings piled the Pyramids | D |
Their tombs were robbed by ruthless hands | E |
Who now shall sing their fame and deeds | F |
Or sift their ashes from the sands | E |
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Deep in the drift of ages hoar | G |
Lie nations lost and kings forgot | H |
Above their graves the oceans roar | G |
Or desert sands drift o'er the spot | H |
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A thousand years are but a day | I |
When reckoned on the wrinkled earth | J |
And who among the wise shall say | I |
What cycle saw the primal birth | J |
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Of man who lords on sea and land | K |
And builds his monuments to day | I |
Like Syrian on the desert sand | K |
To crumble and be blown away | I |
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Proud chiefs of pageant armies led | L |
To fame and death their followers forth | M |
Ere Helen sinned and Hector bled | L |
Or Odin ruled the rugged North | M |
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And poets sang immortal praise | N |
To mortal heroes ere the fire | O |
Of Homer blazed in Ilion lays | N |
Or Brage tuned the Northern lyre | P |
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For fame men piled the Pyramids | D |
Their names have perished with their bones | Q |
For fame men wrote their boasted deeds | F |
On Babel bricks and Runic stones | Q |
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On Tyrian temples gates of brass | R |
On Roman arch and Damask blades | S |
And perished like the desert grass | R |
That springs to day to morrow fades | S |
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And still for fame men delve and die | T |
In Afric heat and Arctic cold | U |
For fame on flood and field they vie | T |
Or gather in the shining gold | U |
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Time like the ocean onward rolls | V |
Relentless burying men and deeds | F |
The brightest names the bravest souls | V |
Float but an hour like ocean weeds | F |
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Then sink forever In the slime | W |
Forgotten lost forevermore | P |
Lies Fame from every age and clime | W |
Yet thousands clamor on the shore | P |
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Immortal Fame O dust and death | X |
The centuries as they pass proclaim | W |
That Fame is but a mortal breath | X |
That man must perish name and fame | W |
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The earth is but a grain of sand | K |
An atom in a shoreless sea | Y |
A million worlds lie in God's hand | K |
Yea myriad millions what are we | Y |
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O mortal man of bone and blood | Z |
Then is there nothing left but dust | A2 |
God made us He is wise and good | B2 |
And we may humbly hope and trust | A2 |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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