A Star In The East Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFGHIHI JKJKILIL MNMOPQPQ| FOR THE ART EXHIBITION AT ST JUDE'S WHITECHAPEL | A |
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| LIKE a fair flower springing fresh sweet and bright | B |
| Through prison stones or like one perfect song | C |
| Heard in a dream on one remembered night | B |
| When waking worlds were dumb with grief and wrong | C |
| Like the one kiss that links first kiss and last | D |
| The inevitable future spent apart | E |
| With the immutable divided past | D |
| So in the east shines out this star of Art | E |
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| The narrow shouldered pale faced girl and boy | F |
| Nestle against Art's new found love warm breast | G |
| And feel vague stirrings of a far off joy | F |
| Which life has never for themselves possessed | G |
| And dimly guess at wonders hardly known | H |
| Even as dreams and weep glad tears to see | I |
| A loveliness that is at once life's own | H |
| And yet is something life can never be | I |
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| Not worse will work the flying busy hand | J |
| Because the soul has drunk a cup of pleasure | K |
| Has picked up on its leaden coloured strand | J |
| Some little jewel of Art's splendid treasure | K |
| Nor will less work be done because men see | I |
| That work is not the only thing in life | L |
| Because they have been glad at heart and free | I |
| A little space 'mid sorrow sin and strife | L |
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| And this sweet draught may banish men's content | M |
| For this we pray and strive not all in vain | N |
| That men may reach such heights of discontent | M |
| As never to fall back to peace again | O |
| Where no peace is nor rest from strife and prayers | P |
| But tread firm footed up the thorny way | Q |
| Till all that spring of art and joy is theirs | P |
| Whereof they taste so small a draught to day | Q |
Edith Nesbit
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