Pagan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD ECECEC FGHGFG| The gods who could loose and bind | A |
| In the long ago | B |
| The gods who were stern and kind | A |
| To men below | B |
| Where shall we seek and find | A |
| Or finding know | B |
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| Where Greece with king on king | C |
| Dreamed in her halls | D |
| Where Rome kneeled worshiping | C |
| The owl now calls | D |
| And whispering ivies cling | C |
| To mouldering walls | D |
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| They have served and have passed away | E |
| From the earth and sky | C |
| And their Creed is a record gray | E |
| Where the passer by | C |
| Reads Live and be glad to day | E |
| For to morrow ye die | C |
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| And shall it be so indeed | F |
| When we are no more | G |
| That nations to be shall read | H |
| As we have before | G |
| In the dust of a Christian Creed | F |
| But pagan lore | G |
Madison Julius Cawein
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