To The Sphinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDDA AEFEFGGA AHIHIJJA AKLKLMMA ANJNJOOA| O sleepless Sphinx | A |
| Thy sadly patient eyes | B |
| Forever gazing o'er the shifting sands | C |
| Have watched Earth's countless dynasties arise | B |
| Stalk forth like spectres waving gory hands | C |
| Then fade away with scarce a lasting trace | D |
| To mark the secret of their dwelling place | D |
| O sleepless Sphinx | A |
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| O changeless Sphinx | A |
| The very dawn of Time | E |
| Beheld thee sculptured from the living rock | F |
| Still wears thy face its primal look sublime | E |
| Surviving all the hoary ages' shock | F |
| Still royal art thou in thy proud repose | G |
| As when the sun on tuneful Memnon rose | G |
| O changeless Sphinx | A |
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| O voiceless Sphinx | A |
| Thy solemn lips are dumb | H |
| Time's awful secrets lie within thy breast | I |
| Age follows age revering pilgrims come | H |
| From every clime to urge the same request | I |
| That thou wilt speak Poor creatures of a day | J |
| In calm disdain thou seest them die away | J |
| O voiceless Sphinx | A |
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| Majestic Sphinx | A |
| Thou crouchest by a sea | K |
| Whose fawn hued wavelets clasp thy buried feet | L |
| Whose desert surface petrified like thee | K |
| Gleams white with sails of many an Arab fleet | L |
| Whose tawny billows surging with the storm | M |
| Break on thy flanks and overleap thy form | M |
| Majestic Sphinx | A |
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| Eternal Sphinx | A |
| The Pyramids are thine | N |
| Their giant summits guard thee night and day | J |
| On thee they look when stars in splendor shine | N |
| Or while around their crests the sunbeams play | J |
| Thine own coevals who with thee remain | O |
| Colossal Genii of the boundless plain | O |
| Eternal Sphinx | A |
John L. Stoddard
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