Satan Speaks (ii) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGHIIJKLLMM CCNNOO| I am the Lord your God even he that made | A |
| Material things and all these signs arrayed | A |
| Above you and have set beneath the race | B |
| Of mankind who forget their Father's face | B |
| And even while they drink my light of day | C |
| Dream of some other gods and disobey | C |
| My warnings and despise my holy laws | D |
| Even tho' their sin shall slay them For which cause | E |
| Dreams dreamed in vain a never filled desire | F |
| And in close flesh a spiritual fire | F |
| A thirst for good their kind shall not attain | G |
| A backward cleaving to the beast again | H |
| A loathing for the life that I have given | I |
| A haunted twisted soul for ever riven | I |
| Between their will and mine such lot I give | J |
| White still in my despite the vermin live | K |
| They hate my world Then let that other God | L |
| Come from the outer spaces glory shod | L |
| And from this castle I have built on Night | M |
| Steal forth my own thought's children into light | M |
| If such an one there be But far away | C |
| He walks the airy fields of endless day | C |
| And my rebellious sons have called Him long | N |
| And vainly called My order still is strong | N |
| And like to me nor second none I know | O |
| Whither the mammoth went this creature too shall go | O |
C. S. Lewis
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