Earth's Eternity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCDDAEADAMan Earth's poor shadow talks of Earth's decay | A |
But hath it nothing of eternal kin | B |
No majesty that shall not pass away | A |
No soul of greatness springing up within | B |
Thought marks without hoar shadows of sublime | C |
Pictures of power which if not doomed to win | B |
Eternity stand laughing at old Time | C |
For ages in the grand ancestral line | D |
Of things eternal mounting to divine | D |
I read Magnificence where ages pay | A |
Worship like conquered foes to the Apennine | E |
Because they could not conquer There sits Day | A |
Too high for Night to come at mountains shine | D |
Outpeering Time too lofty for decay | A |
John Clare
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