Oxford Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG FHFH DIDI| It is well that there are palaces of peace | A |
| And discipline and dreaming and desire | B |
| Lest we forget our heritage and cease | A |
| The Spirit's work to hunger and aspire | C |
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| Lest we forget that we were born divine | D |
| Now tangled in red battle's animal net | E |
| Murder the work and lust the anodyne | D |
| Pains of the beast 'gainst bestial solace set | E |
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| But this shall never be to us remains | F |
| One city that has nothing of the beast | G |
| That was not built for gross material gains | F |
| Sharp wolfish power or empire's glutted feast | G |
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| We are not wholly brute To us remains | F |
| A clean sweet city lulled by ancient streams | H |
| A place of visions and of loosening chains | F |
| A refuge of the elect a tower of dreams | H |
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| She was not builded out of common stone | D |
| But out of all men's yearning and all prayer | I |
| That she might live eternally our own | D |
| The Spirit's stronghold barred against despair | I |
C. S. Lewis
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