The Rhymer's Reply. Incense And Splendor Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFEGFHFIJKJLMNM OCPCQMRMIncense and Splendor haunt me as I go | A |
Though my good works have been alas too few | B |
Though I do naught High Heaven comes down to me | C |
And future ages pass in tall review | B |
I see the years to come as armies vast | D |
Stalking tremendous through the fields of time | E |
MAN is unborn To morrow he is born | F |
Flame like to hover o'er the moil and grime | E |
Striving aspiring till the shame is gone | G |
Sowing a million flowers where now we mourn | F |
Laying new precious pavements with a song | H |
Founding new shrines the good streets to adorn | F |
I have seen lovers by those new built walls | I |
Clothed like the dawn in orange gold and red | J |
Eyes flashing forth the glory light of love | K |
Under the wreaths that crowned each royal head | J |
Life was made greater by their sweetheart prayers | L |
Passion was turned to civic strength that day | M |
Piling the marbles making fairer domes | N |
With zeal that else had burned bright youth away | M |
I have seen priestesses of life go by | O |
Gliding in samite through the incense sea | C |
Innocent children marching with them there | P |
Singing in flowered robes THE EARTH IS FREE | C |
While on the fair deep carved unfinished towers | Q |
Sentinels watched in armor night and day | M |
Guarding the brazier fires of hope and dream | R |
Wild was their peace and dawn bright their array | M |
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