As The Ruin Falls Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HH| All this is flashy rhetoric about loving you | A |
| I never had a selfless thought since I was born | B |
| I am mercenary and self seeking through and through | A |
| I want God you all friends merely to serve my turn | C |
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| Peace re assurance pleasure are the goals I seek | D |
| I cannot crawl one inch outside my proper skin | E |
| I talk of love a scholar's parrot may talk Greek | D |
| But self imprisoned always end where I begin | E |
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| Only that now you have taught me but how late my lack | F |
| I see the chasm And everything you are was making | G |
| My heart into a bridge by which I might get back | F |
| From exile and grow man And now the bridge is breaking | G |
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| For this I bless you as the ruin falls The pains | H |
| You give me are more precious than all other gains | H |
Clive Staples Lewis
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