Foundations Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBA CDDCEE| We are what nature made us soon or late | A |
| Life's art that fadeth passeth slow away | B |
| With iron eatings of our sordid day | B |
| Leaving behind those influences innate | A |
| Immutable divine As round some great | A |
| Rude craggy isle the loud surf's ravening fray | B |
| Shatters all life in spume of thundered spray | B |
| Leaving huge cliffs scarred grim in naked state | A |
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| So life and all its idols hath its hour | C |
| Its fleet ephemeral dream its passing show | D |
| Its pomp of fevered hopes that come and go | D |
| Then stripped of vanity and folly's power | C |
| Like some wide water bared to moon and star | E |
| We know ourselves in truth for what we are | E |
William Wilfred Campbell
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