The Builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KHKHLBLBMNMNOPOP| All are architects of Fate | A |
| Working in these walls of Time | B |
| Some with massive deeds and great | A |
| Some with ornaments of rhyme | B |
| Nothing useless is or low | C |
| Each thing in its place is best | D |
| And what seems but idle show | C |
| Strengthens and supports the rest | D |
| For the structure that we raise | E |
| Time is with materials filled | F |
| Our to days and yesterdays | E |
| Are the blocks with which we build | F |
| Truly shape and fashion these | G |
| Leave no yawning gaps between | H |
| Think not because no man sees | G |
| Such things will remain unseen | H |
| In the elder days of Art | I |
| Builders wrought with greatest care | J |
| Each minute and unseen part | I |
| For the Gods see everywhere | J |
| Let us do out work as well | K |
| Both the unseen and the seen | H |
| Make the house where Gods may dwell | K |
| Beautiful entire and clean | H |
| Else our lives are incomplete | L |
| Standing in these walls of Time | B |
| Broken stairways where the feet | L |
| Stumble as they seek to climb | B |
| Build to day then strong and sure | M |
| With a firm and ample base | N |
| And ascending and secure | M |
| Shall to morrow find its place | N |
| Thus alone can we attain | O |
| To those turrets where the eye | P |
| Sees the world as one vast plain | O |
| And one boundless reach of sky | P |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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