The Sphinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCA CDDCDC| Wanderer behold Life's riddle writ in stone | A |
| Fronting Eternity with lidless eyes | B |
| Of all that is beneath the changing skies | B |
| Immutably abiding and alone | A |
| The handiwork of hands unseen unknown | A |
| When Pharaohs of immortal dynasties | C |
| Built Pyramids to brave the centuries | C |
| Cheating Annihilation of her own | A |
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| The heart grows hushed before it Nay methinks | C |
| That Man and all on which Man wastes his breath | D |
| The World and all the World inheriteth | D |
| With infinite inexorable links | C |
| Grappling the soul that love hate birth and death | D |
| Dwindle to nothingness before thee Sphinx | C |
Mathilde Blind
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