The Sage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFBF HIJIKI LMNMOM JPQPAP RASATA| Sequoia growing grandly | A |
| Out of the long ago | B |
| Beloved of Time whose sons | C |
| March by to measures slow | B |
| How tenderly you cherish | D |
| All little lives below | B |
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| Your mighty column pillars | E |
| The blue dome of the sky | F |
| Your foliage plumes with greenness | G |
| The clouds that pass on high | F |
| Yet here below slim lilies grow | B |
| And here at peace am I | F |
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| How have you won Time over | H |
| That lord of dark renown | I |
| His hand that withers all things | J |
| Has given your brow a crown | I |
| From your crest forty centuries | K |
| Now upon me look down | I |
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| Yes all the lordly ages | L |
| Your youth immortal knows | M |
| Yet softly here you fashion | N |
| A carpet for the rose | M |
| And smoothly spread a mossy bed | O |
| Under my deep repose | M |
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| You have defied the lightnings | J |
| They rent and scarred in vain | P |
| Fierce fires have stripped you naked | Q |
| You made your peace with pain | P |
| And bloomed again in beauty | A |
| To baffle death's disdain | P |
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| Where do you win your secret | R |
| Of life untroubled free | A |
| And wise with all the wisdom | S |
| Of time's democracy | A |
| What do you hear this many a year | T |
| Whisper the song to me | A |
Harriet Monroe
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