Science-fiction Cradlesong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEEAA FFBBGG HHIIAA| By and by Man will try | A |
| To get out into the sky | A |
| Sailing far beyond the air | B |
| From Down and Here to Up and There | B |
| Stars and sky sky and stars | C |
| Make us feel the prison bars | C |
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| Suppose it done Now we ride | D |
| Closed in steel up there outside | D |
| Through our port holes see the vast | E |
| Heaven scape go rushing past | E |
| Shall we All that meets the eye | A |
| Is sky and stars stars and sky | A |
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| Points of light with black between | F |
| Hang like a painted scene | F |
| Motionless no nearer there | B |
| Than on Earth everywhere | B |
| Equidistant from our ship | G |
| Heaven has given us the slip | G |
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| Hush be still Outer space | H |
| Is a concept not a place | H |
| Try no more Where we are | I |
| Never can be sky or star | I |
| From prison in a prison we fly | A |
| There's no way into the sky | A |
Clive Staples Lewis
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