The World And The Quietist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCDBD EEFGGHIH JJKLLMLN OOPQQRPR| Why when the World's great mind | A |
| Hath finally inclin'd | A |
| Why you say Critias be debating still | B |
| Why with these mournful rhymes | C |
| Learn'd in more languid climes | C |
| Blame our activity | D |
| Who with such passionate will | B |
| Are what we mean to be | D |
| - | |
| Critias long since I know | E |
| For Fate decreed it so | E |
| Long since the World hath set its heart to live | F |
| Long since with credulous zeal | G |
| It turns Life's mighty wheel | G |
| Still doth for labourers send | H |
| Who still their labour give | I |
| And still expects an end | H |
| - | |
| Yet as the wheel flies round | J |
| With no ungrateful sound | J |
| Do adverse voices fall on the World's ear | K |
| Deafen'd by his own stir | L |
| The rugged Labourer | L |
| Caught not till then a sense | M |
| So glowing and so near | L |
| Of his omnipotence | N |
| - | |
| So when the feast grew loud | O |
| In Susa's palace proud | O |
| A white rob'd slave stole to the Monarch's side | P |
| He spoke the Monarch heard | Q |
| Felt the slow rolling word | Q |
| Swell his attentive soul | R |
| Breath'd deeply as it died | P |
| And drain'd his mighty bowl | R |
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