The Miracle Of The Dawn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CCCCCC CDCECE FCFCFC ECECEC GCHCGC| What would it mean for you and me | A |
| If dawn should come no more | B |
| Think of its gold along the sea | A |
| Its rose above the shore | B |
| That rose of awful mystery | A |
| Our souls bow down before | B |
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| What wonder that the Inca kneeled | C |
| The Aztec prayed and pled | C |
| And sacrificed to it and sealed | C |
| With rites that long are dead | C |
| The marvels that it once revealed | C |
| To them it comforted | C |
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| What wonder yea what awe behold | C |
| What rapture and what tears | D |
| Were ours if wild its rivered gold | C |
| That now each day appears | E |
| Burst on the world in darkness rolled | C |
| Once every thousand years | E |
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| Think what it means to me and you | F |
| To see it even as God | C |
| Evolved it when the world was new | F |
| When Light rose earthquake shod | C |
| And slow its gradual splendor grew | F |
| O'er deeps the whirlwind trod | C |
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| What shoutings then and cymballings | E |
| Arose from depth and height | C |
| What worship solemn trumpetings | E |
| And thunders burning white | C |
| Of winds and waves and anthemings | E |
| Of Earth received the Light | C |
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| Think what it meant to see the dawn | G |
| The dawn that comes each day | C |
| What if the East should ne'er grow wan | H |
| Should nevermore grow gray | C |
| That line of rose no more be drawn | G |
| Above the ocean's spray | C |
Madison Julius Cawein
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