The Unknown God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEDEFGFGFGHG IJKJLMNO FPQPRPSP TUOUNVNW XYZYA2B2C2C2 ND2ND2E2F2E2F2 FC2G2C2FH2I2H2 DJ2DJ2C2C2K2C2| The President to Kingdoms | A |
| As in the Days of Old | B |
| The King to the Republic | C |
| As it had been foretold | B |
| They could not read the spelling | D |
| They would not hear the call | E |
| They would not brook the telling | D |
| Of Writing on the Wall | E |
| I buy my Peace with Slaughter | F |
| With Peace I fashion War | G |
| I drown the land with water | F |
| With land I build the shore | G |
| I walk with Son and Daughter | F |
| Where Ocean rolled before | G |
| I build a town where sea was | H |
| A tower where tempests roar | G |
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| From bays in distant islands | I |
| And rocks in lonely seas | J |
| With unseen Death in silence | K |
| I smite mine enemies | J |
| The great Cathedral crashes | L |
| Where once a city stood | M |
| I build again on ashes | N |
| And breed on clotted blood | O |
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| I link the seas together | F |
| And at my sign and will | P |
| The train runs on the ocean bed | Q |
| The great ship climbs the hill | P |
| For pastime I flood deserts | R |
| With water from the rill | P |
| And in my tireless leisure hours | S |
| I empty lakes and fill | P |
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| I plumb the seas beneath us | T |
| And fathom skies above | U |
| Yet I make Peace for hatred | O |
| And I make War for love | U |
| I race beneath the ranges | N |
| And sit where Mystery dwells | V |
| Yet mankind sees no changes | N |
| They ask for miracles | W |
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| I own the world and span its | X |
| Lone lands from Pole to Pole | Y |
| I live in other planets | Z |
| Yet do not know my soul | Y |
| The soul that none may fathom | A2 |
| Whose secrets none may tell | B2 |
| The soul that none may humble | C2 |
| The Soul Unconquerable | C2 |
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| I am the God of Ages | N |
| I am the Unknown God | D2 |
| My life is written pages | N |
| Wherever man hath trod | D2 |
| From bounds of Polar regions | E2 |
| To where the Desert reigns | F2 |
| I ve left my myriad legions | E2 |
| On countless vanished plains | F2 |
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| And I shall reign for ever | F |
| On earth while oceans roll | C2 |
| In shape of man or woman | G2 |
| Through my immortal soul | C2 |
| Yet I can love and suffer | F |
| Be angry or be mild | H2 |
| And I can bow me down and weep | I2 |
| Just like a mortal child | H2 |
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| I conquer Death and Living | D |
| And Fiends in shape of men | J2 |
| For I rejoice in giving | D |
| Not to receive again | J2 |
| For I am Man and Mortal | C2 |
| And Mammon s Towers must fall | C2 |
| Though Greed draws all his pencils through | K2 |
| The Writing on the Wall | C2 |
Henry Lawson
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