Hymn (for Boys' Voices) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE AAA FFF GHG III JJJ| All the things magicians do | A |
| Could be done by me and you | A |
| Freely if we only knew | A |
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| Human children every day | B |
| Could play at games the faeries play | B |
| If they were but shown the way | B |
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| Every man a God would be | C |
| Laughing through eternity | C |
| If as God's his eyes could see | C |
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| All the wizardries of God | D |
| Slaying matter with a nod | D |
| Charming spirits with his rod | D |
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| With the singing of his voice | E |
| Making lonely lands rejoice | E |
| Leaving us no will nor choice | E |
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| Drawing headlong me and you | A |
| As the piping Orpheus drew | A |
| Man and beast the mountains through | A |
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| By the sweetness of his horn | F |
| Calling us from lands forlorn | F |
| Nearer to the widening morn | F |
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| All that loveliness of power | G |
| Could be man's peculiar dower | H |
| Even mine this very hour | G |
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| We should reach the Hidden Land | I |
| And grow immortal out of hand | I |
| If we could but understand | I |
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| We could revel day and night | J |
| In all power and all delight | J |
| If we learn to think aright | J |
Clive Staples Lewis
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