Monday In Whitsun-week Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABB CCDEEF GGHIIH JJKLLK MMNOOO PPOGGO QQRSSR TTPUUP EEOOOO VVWXXW OOYZZY A2B2C2OOC2 D2D2PE2E2P UUF2DDF2 G2H2I2QQJ2| So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face | A |
| of all the earth and they left off to build the city | B |
| Genesis xi | B |
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| Since all that is not Heaven must fade | C |
| Light be the hand of Ruin laid | C |
| Upon the home I love | D |
| With lulling spell let soft Decay | E |
| Steal on and spare the giant sway | E |
| The crash of tower and grove | F |
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| Far opening down some woodland deep | G |
| In their own quiet glade should sleep | G |
| The relics dear to thought | H |
| And wild flower wreaths from side to side | I |
| Their waving tracery hang to hide | I |
| What ruthless Time has wrought | H |
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| Such are the visions green and sweet | J |
| That o'er the wistful fancy fleet | J |
| In Asia's sea like plain | K |
| Where slowly round his isles of sand | L |
| Euphrates through the lonely land | L |
| Winds toward the pearly main | K |
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| Slumber is there but not of rest | M |
| There her forlorn and weary nest | M |
| The famished hawk has found | N |
| The wild dog howls at fall of night | O |
| The serpent's rustling coils affright | O |
| The traveller on his round | O |
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| What shapeless form half lost on high | P |
| Half seen against the evening sky | P |
| Seems like a ghost to glide | O |
| And watch from Babel's crumbling heap | G |
| Where in her shadow fast asleep | G |
| Lies fallen imperial Pride | O |
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| With half closed eye a lion there | Q |
| Is basking in his noontide lair | Q |
| Or prowls in twilight gloom | R |
| The golden city's king he seems | S |
| Such as in old prophetic dreams | S |
| Sprang from rough ocean's womb | R |
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| But where are now his eagle wings | T |
| That sheltered erst a thousand kings | T |
| Hiding the glorious sky | P |
| From half the nations till they own | U |
| No holier name no mightier throne | U |
| That vision is gone by | P |
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| Quenched is the golden statue's ray | E |
| The breath of heaven has blown away | E |
| What toiling earth had piled | O |
| Scattering wise heart and crafty hand | O |
| As breezes strew on ocean's sand | O |
| The fabrics of a child | O |
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| Divided thence through every age | V |
| Thy rebels Lord their warfare wage | V |
| And hoarse and jarring all | W |
| Mount up their heaven assailing cries | X |
| To Thy bright watchmen in the skies | X |
| From Babel's shattered wall | W |
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| Thrice only since with blended might | O |
| The nations on that haughty height | O |
| Have met to scale the Heaven | Y |
| Thrice only might a Seraph's look | Z |
| A moment's shade of sadness brook | Z |
| Such power to guilt was given | Y |
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| Now the fierce bear and leopard keen | A2 |
| Are perished as they ne'er had been | B2 |
| Oblivion is their home | C2 |
| Ambition's boldest dream and last | O |
| Must melt before the clarion blast | O |
| That sounds the dirge of Rome | C2 |
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| Heroes and kings obey the charm | D2 |
| Withdraw the proud high reaching arm | D2 |
| There is an oath on high | P |
| That ne'er on brow of mortal birth | E2 |
| Shall blend again the crowns of earth | E2 |
| Nor in according cry | P |
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| Her many voices mingling own | U |
| One tyrant Lord one idol throne | U |
| But to His triumphs soon | F2 |
| HE shall descend who rules above | D |
| And the pure language of His love | D |
| All tongues of men shall tune | F2 |
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| Nor let Ambition heartless mourn | G2 |
| When Babel's very ruins burn | H2 |
| Her high desires may breathe | I2 |
| O'ercome thyself and thou mayst share | Q |
| With Christ His Father's throne and wear | Q |
| The world's imperial wreath | J2 |
John Keble
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