The Flight Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDEE FFGH IIII DDGGAADD| TRUST and Treachery Wisdom Folly | A |
| Madness Mirth and Melancholy | A |
| Love and Hatred Thrift and Pillage | B |
| All are housed in one small village | C |
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| And if such be Life s mix d being | D |
| Where may Peace from ruin fleeing | D |
| Find a shelter and inherit | E |
| All the calm of her own merit | E |
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| In a bark of gentle motion | F |
| Sailing on the summer ocean | F |
| There worst war the tempest wages | G |
| And the whirlpool s hunger rages | H |
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| In some lonely new world bower | I |
| Hidden like a forest flower | I |
| There too there to irk the stranger | I |
| Stalks the wild eyed spirit Danger | I |
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| Vainly would she build by roving | D |
| Or in hoping or in loving | D |
| Or in solitary spaces | G |
| Having in all times and places | G |
| Or in none a home of beauty | A |
| In the fearless heart of Duty | A |
| Dwelling there and seeing | D |
| God s right hand all things decreeing | D |
Charles Harpur
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