What Lasts? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEFFGG CCHI CCJJ KKEE LLMMNNLL| The words we speak on the empty air | A |
| Are never lost but recorded there | A |
| The process we may not comprehend | B |
| Nor how the words with the air may blend | B |
| But science shows what results may be | C |
| Accept the fact is enough for me | C |
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| The waves of sound may have died away | D |
| As ripples faint on a sheltered bay | D |
| But though now faint will be heard again | E |
| By God ourselves and the sons of men | E |
| As sound e'en now may be multiplied | F |
| The faintest moan like the roaring tide | F |
| The housefly's tread with its tiny feet | G |
| Like tramp of horse on the stone paved street | G |
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| So though now faint will those voices be | C |
| When Christ shall come in His majesty | C |
| Our quicken'd sense will the echo hear | H |
| Like blast of horn to the timid deer | I |
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| In pleasant tones will the echoes be | C |
| Of words of love and of happy glee | C |
| Which we address to the friends we love | J |
| Or offer up to our Lord above | J |
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| But unlike those all the echoes heard | K |
| Of angry tones and each sword like word | K |
| As we here mete to our fellow men | E |
| The Judge shall mete in full measure then | E |
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| The thoughts we think may be lasting too | L |
| Though not inscribed on the azure blue | L |
| On the tissued walls of the soul's great dome | M |
| May be found those thoughts ne'er more to roam | M |
| And like our thoughts may we not become | N |
| The thought we think be ourselves the sum | N |
| May thoughts of God on my heart be graved | L |
| And I be known as a sinner saved | L |
Joseph Horatio Chant
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