The Builders Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEFGHGHIJIJ KHKHLBLBMNMNOPOPAll 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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