The Circles Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDBBEEFFGGHEII JJKKBBLL| Within yon world wide cirque of war | A |
| What's hidden which they fight so for | A |
| My guide made answer Rich increase | B |
| Of virtue and use which are by peace | B |
| And peace by war That inner ring | C |
| Are craftsmen working many a thing | C |
| For use and these within the wise | D |
| Explore the grass and read the skies | D |
| Can the stars motions give me peace | B |
| Or the herbs' virtues mine increase | B |
| Of all this triple shell said I | E |
| Would that I might the kernel spy | E |
| A narrower circle then I reach'd | F |
| Where sang a few and many preach'd | F |
| Of life immortal But I said | G |
| The riddle yet I have not read | G |
| Life I must know that care I may | H |
| For life in me to last for aye | E |
| Then he Those voices are a charm | I |
| To keep yon dove cot out of harm | I |
| In the centre then he show'd a tent | J |
| Where laughing safe a woman bent | J |
| Over her babe and her above | K |
| Lean'd in his turn a graver love | K |
| Behold the two idolatries | B |
| By which cried he the world defies | B |
| Chaos and death and for whose sake | L |
| All else must war and work and wake | L |
Coventry Patmore
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