The Law Of Laws Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF GEHEII BABABBIf we could roll back History | A |
A century let's say | B |
And start from there I'm sure that we | A |
Would find things as to day | B |
In all creation's cosmic range | C |
No vestige of a change | C |
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Turn back a thousand years the same | D |
Unchangement we would view | E |
Cause and Effect their laws proclaim | D |
The truest of the true | E |
And in life's mechanistic groove | F |
The Universe would move | F |
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Grim is the grip of the Machine | G |
And everything we do | E |
Designed implacably has been | H |
Since earth was virgin new | E |
We strut our parts as they were writ | I |
That's all there is to it | I |
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Curse on such thinking let us play | B |
At Free Will though we be | A |
The gnatlike creatures of the day | B |
The dupes of Destiny | A |
The merle is merry in the may | B |
Tommorow's time to pray | B |
Robert Service
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