Incense Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK| Think not that incense smoke has had its day | A |
| My friends the incense time has but begun | B |
| Creed upon creed cult upon cult shall bloom | C |
| Shrine after shrine grow gray beneath the sun | B |
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| And mountain boulders in our aged West | D |
| Shall guard the graves of hermits truth endowed | E |
| And there the scholar from the Chinese hills | F |
| Shall do deep honor with his wise head bowed | E |
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| And on our old old plains some muddy stream | G |
| Dark as the Ganges shall like that strange tide | H |
| Whispering mystery to half the earth | I |
| Gather the praying millions to its side | H |
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| And flow past halls with statues in white stone | J |
| To saints unborn to day whose lives of grace | K |
| Shall make one shining universal church | L |
| Where all Faiths kneel as brothers in one place | K |
Vachel Lindsay
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