A Builder's Lesson Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDEEFFF GGHHII JJKKLLL| 'HOW shall I a habit break ' | A |
| As you did that habit make | B |
| As you gathered you must lose | C |
| As you yielded now refuse | C |
| Thread by thread the strands we twist | D |
| Till they bind us neck and wrist | D |
| Thread by thread the patient hand | E |
| Must untwine ere free we stand | E |
| As we builded stone by stone | F |
| We must toil unhelped alone | F |
| Till the wall is overthrown | F |
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| But remember as we try | G |
| Lighter every test goes by | G |
| Wading in the stream grows deep | H |
| Toward the center's downward sweep | H |
| Backward turn each step ashore | I |
| Shallower is than that before | I |
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| Ah the precious years we waste | J |
| Leveling what we raised in haste | J |
| Doing what must be undone | K |
| Ere content or love be won | K |
| First across the gulf we cast | L |
| Kite borne threads till lines are passed | L |
| And habit builds the bridge at last | L |
John Boyle O'reilly
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