Brave New World Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGHIFAFD JKLKMDMD NONOMDMD PQPQRDRD| One spoke Come let us gaily go | A |
| With laughter love and lust | B |
| Since in a century or so | A |
| We'll all be boneyard dust | B |
| When unborn shadows hold the screen | C |
| Our betters I'll allow | D |
| 'Twill be as if we'd never been | E |
| A hundred years from now | D |
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| When we have played life's lively game | F |
| Right royally we'll rot | G |
| And not a soul will care a damn | H |
| The why or how we fought | I |
| To grub for gold or grab for fame | F |
| Or raise a holy row | A |
| It will be all the bloody same | F |
| A hundred years from now | D |
| - | |
| Said I Look I have built a tower | J |
| Upon you lonely hill | K |
| Designed to be a daughter's dower | L |
| Yet when my heart is still | K |
| The stone I set with horny hand | M |
| And salty sweat of brow | D |
| A record of my strength will sand | M |
| A hundred years from now | D |
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| There's nothing lost and nothing vain | N |
| In all this world so wide | O |
| The ocean hoards each drop of rain | N |
| To swell its sweeping tide | O |
| The desert seeks each grain of sand | M |
| It's empire to endow | D |
| And we a bright brave world have planned | M |
| A hundred years from now | D |
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| And all we are and all we do | P |
| Will bring that world to be | Q |
| Our strain and pain let us not rue | P |
| Though other eyes shall see | Q |
| For other hearts will bravely beat | R |
| And lips will sing of how | D |
| We strove to make life sane and sweet | R |
| A hundred years from now | D |
Robert Service
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