The Innovator Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCB DEDEF GHGHG IJIJI| A Pharaoh Speaks | A |
| - | |
| I said Why should a pyramid | B |
| Stand always dully on its base | C |
| I'll change it Let the top be hid | B |
| The bottom take the apex place | C |
| And as I bade they did | B |
| - | |
| The people flocked in scores on scores | D |
| To see it balance on its tip | E |
| They praised me with the praise that bores | D |
| My godlike mind on every lip | E |
| Until it fell of course | F |
| - | |
| And then they took my body out | G |
| From my crushed palace mad with rage | H |
| Well half the town WAS wrecked no doubt | G |
| Their crazy anger to assuage | H |
| By dragging it about | G |
| - | |
| The end Foul birds defile my skull | I |
| The new king's praises fill the land | J |
| He clings to precept simple dull | I |
| HIS pyramids on bases stand | J |
| But Lord how usual | I |
Stephen Vincent Benet
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