The Giant Cactus Of Arizona Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACAC DEDEDF GHGHGH IJIJIJ| The cactus in the desert stands | A |
| Like time's inviolate sentinel | B |
| Watching the sun washed waste of sands | A |
| Lest they their ancient secrets tell | C |
| And the lost lore of mournful lands | A |
| It knows alone and guards too well | C |
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| Wiser than Sphynx or pyramid | D |
| It points a stark hand at the sky | E |
| And all the stars alight or hid | D |
| It counts as they go rolling by | E |
| And mysteries the gods forbid | D |
| Darken its heavy memory | F |
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| I asked how old the world was yea | G |
| And why yon ruddy mountain grew | H |
| Out of hell's fire By night nor day | G |
| It answered not though all it knew | H |
| But lifted as it stopped my way | G |
| Its wrinkled fingers toward the blue | H |
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| Inscrutable and stern and still | I |
| It waits the everlasting doom | J |
| Races and years may do their will | I |
| Lo it will rise above their tomb | J |
| Till the drugged earth has drunk her fill | I |
| Of light and falls asleep in gloom | J |
Harriet Monroe
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