De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FGF HHH DDD IJI KKK HHH EEE| Come let us curse our Master ere we die | A |
| For all our hopes in endless ruin lie | A |
| The good is dead Let us curse God most High | A |
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| Four thousand years of toil and hope and thought | B |
| Wherein man laboured upward and still wrought | B |
| New worlds and better Thou hast made as naught | B |
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| We built us joyful cities strong and fair | C |
| Knowledge we sought and gathered wisdom rare | C |
| And all this time you laughed upon our care | C |
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| And suddenly the earth grew black with wrong | D |
| Our hope was crushed and silenced was our song | D |
| The heaven grew loud with weeping Thou art strong | D |
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| Come then and curse the Lord Over the earth | E |
| Gross darkness falls and evil was our birth | E |
| And our few happy days of little worth | E |
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| Even if it be not all a dream in vain | F |
| The ancient hope that still will rise again | G |
| Of a just God that cares for earthly pain | F |
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| Yet far away beyond our labouring night | H |
| He wanders in the depths of endless light | H |
| Singing alone his musics of delight | H |
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| Only the far spent echo of his song | D |
| Our dungeons and deep cells can smite along | D |
| And Thou art nearer Thou art very strong | D |
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| O universal strength I know it well | I |
| It is but froth of folly to rebel | J |
| For thou art Lord and hast the keys of Hell | I |
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| Yet I will not bow down to thee nor love thee | K |
| For looking in my own heart I can prove thee | K |
| And know this frail bruised being is above thee | K |
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| Our love our hope our thirsting for the right | H |
| Our mercy and long seeking of the light | H |
| Shall we change these for thy relentless might | H |
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| Laugh then and slay Shatter all things of worth | E |
| Heap torment still on torment for thy mirth | E |
| Thou art not Lord while there are Men on earth | E |
C. S. Lewis
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