The New York Skyscraper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCDEFDGDHIIJKKFFL MMKKKNOPQRSQTNUU| The Woolworth Building | A |
| ENORMOUSLY it lifts | B |
| Its tower against the splendor of the west | C |
| Like some wild dream that drifts | B |
| Before the mind and at the will's behest | C |
| Enchantment based gigantic steel and stone | D |
| Is given permanence | E |
| A concrete fact | F |
| Complete alone | D |
| Glorious immense | G |
| Such as no nation here on Earth has known | D |
| Epitomizing all | H |
| That is American that stands for youth | I |
| And strength and truth | I |
| That's individual | J |
| And beautiful and free | K |
| Resistless srength and tireless energy | K |
| Even as a cataract | F |
| Its superb fact | F |
| Suggests vast forces Nature builds with Joy | L |
| And Power and Thought | M |
| She to her aid has brought | M |
| For eons past will bring for eons yet to be | K |
| Shaping the world to her desire the three | K |
| Her counsellors constantly | K |
| Her architects through whom her dreams come true | N |
| Her workmen bringing forth | O |
| With toil that shall not cease | P |
| Mountains and plains and seas | Q |
| That make the Earth | R |
| The glory that it is | S |
| And one with these | Q |
| Such works of man as this | T |
| This building towering into the blue | N |
| A beacon round which like an ocean wide | U |
| Circles and flows the restless human tide | U |
Madison Julius Cawein
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