The Sphinx Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACCA CDDCDCWanderer 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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