Apology Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE EGGE EEEE| If men should ask Despoina why I tell | A |
| Of nothing glad nor noble in my verse | B |
| To lighten hearts beneath this present curse | B |
| And build a heaven of dreams in real hell | A |
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| Go you to them and speak among them thus | C |
| There were no greater grief than to recall | D |
| Down in the rotting grave where the lithe worms crawl | D |
| Green fields above that smiled so sweet to us | C |
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| Is it good to tell old tales of Troynovant | E |
| Or praises of dead heroes tried and sage | F |
| Or sing the queens of unforgotten age | F |
| Brynhild and Maeve and virgin Bradamant | E |
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| How should I sing of them Can it be good | E |
| To think of glory now when all is done | G |
| And all our labour underneath the sun | G |
| Has brought us this and not the thing we would | E |
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| All these were rosy visions of the night | E |
| The loveliness and wisdom feigned of old | E |
| But now we wake The East is pale and cold | E |
| No hope is in the dawn and no delight | E |
C. S. Lewis
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