Cliche Came Out Of Its Cage Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCCCBDCEEFGHCCIJKLI CCM ENBOPCQRBKSTUCICBCVI| A | |
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| You said 'The world is going back to Paganism' | B |
| Oh bright Vision I saw our dynasty in the bar of the House | C |
| Spill from their tumblers a libation to the Erinyes | C |
| And Leavis with Lord Russell wreathed in flowers heralded with flutes | C |
| Leading white bulls to the cathedral of the solemn Muses | C |
| To pay where due the glory of their latest theorem | B |
| Hestia's fire in every flat rekindled burned before | D |
| The Lardergods Unmarried daughters with obedient hands | C |
| Tended it By the hearth the white armd venerable mother | E |
| Domum servabat lanam faciebat at the hour | E |
| Of sacrifice their brothers came silent corrected grave | F |
| Before their elders on their downy cheeks easily the blush | G |
| Arose it is the mark of freemen's children as they trooped | H |
| Gleaming with oil demurely home from the palaestra or the dance | C |
| Walk carefully do not wake the envy of the happy gods | C |
| Shun Hubris The middle of the road the middle sort of men | I |
| Are best Aidos surpasses gold Reverence for the aged | J |
| Is wholesome as seasonable rain and for a man to die | K |
| Defending the city in battle is a harmonious thing | L |
| Thus with magistral hand the Puritan Sophrosune | I |
| Cooled and schooled and tempered our uneasy motions | C |
| Heathendom came again the circumspection and the holy fears | C |
| You said it Did you mean it Oh inordinate liar stop | M |
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| Or did you mean another kind of heathenry | E |
| Think then that under heaven roof the little disc of the earth | N |
| Fortified Midgard lies encircled by the ravening Worm | B |
| Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll | O |
| Look in ready to invade it The Wolf admittedly is bound | P |
| But the bond wil break the Beast run free The weary gods | C |
| Scarred with old wounds the one eyed Odin Tyr who has lost a hand | Q |
| Will limp to their stations for the Last defence Make it your hope | R |
| To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them | B |
| For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die | K |
| His second final death in good company The stupid strong | S |
| Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last | T |
| And every man of decent blood is on the losing side | U |
| Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits | C |
| Who walked back into burning houses to die with men | I |
| Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals | C |
| Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim | B |
| Are these the Pagans you spoke of Know your betters and crouch dogs | C |
| You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event | V |
| Your goddess History whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune | I |
Clive Staples Lewis
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