Special Pleading Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEFGHG IJIKLCLCTHE world's a path all fresh and sweet | A |
A sky all fresh and fair | B |
With daisies underneath your feet | A |
And roses for your hair | B |
Red roses for your pretty hair | B |
Green trees to shade your way | C |
And lavish blossoms everywhere | B |
Because the time is May | C |
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How gold the sun shines through the green | D |
How soft the turf is spread | E |
How richly falls the shimmering sheen | D |
About your darling head | E |
How in the dawn of Paradise | F |
Should you foresee the night | G |
How with the sunlight in your eyes | H |
See aught beyond the light | G |
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The world's a path all rough and wild | I |
A sky all black with fears | J |
Among the ghosts unhappy child | I |
You stumble blind with tears | K |
The track is faint and far the fold | L |
And very far the day | C |
Unless you have a hand to hold | L |
How will you find the way | C |
Edith Nesbit
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