The Country Of The Blind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFGA HIFJ KALM N FO PQPO FPFN POAR| Hard light bathed them a whole nation of eyeless men | A |
| Dark bipeds not aware how they were maimed A long | B |
| Process clearly a slow curse | C |
| Drained through centuries left them thus | D |
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| At some transitional stage then a luckless few | E |
| No doubt must have had eyes after the up to date | F |
| Normal type had achieved snug | G |
| Darkness safe from the guns of heavn | A |
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| Whose blind mouths would abuse words that belonged to their | H |
| Great grandsires unabashed talking of light in some | I |
| Eunuch'd etiolated | F |
| Fungoid sense as a symbol of | J |
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| Abstract thoughts If a man one that had eyes a poor | K |
| Misfit spoke of the grey dawn or the stars or green | A |
| Sloped sea waves or admired how | L |
| Warm tints change in a lady's cheek | M |
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| None complained he had used words from an alien tongue | N |
| None question'd It was worse All would agree 'Of course ' | - |
| Came their answer We've all felt | F |
| Just like that They were wrong And he | O |
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| Knew too much to be clear could not explain The words | P |
| Sold raped flung to the dogs now could avail no more | Q |
| Hence silence But the mouldwarps | P |
| With glib confidence easily | O |
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| Showed how tricks of the phrase sheer metaphors could set | F |
| Fools concocting a myth taking the worlds for things | P |
| Do you think this a far fetched | F |
| Picture Go then about among | N |
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| Men now famous attempt speech on the truths that once | P |
| Opaque carved in divine forms irremovable | O |
| Dear but dear as a mountain | A |
| Mass stood plain to the inward eye | R |
Clive Staples Lewis
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