A Chord Of Colour Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAACDCD EFEFADAG GEGEGDGD DHDHAAA| My Lady clad herself in grey | A |
| That caught and clung about her throat | B |
| Then all the long grey winter day | A |
| On me a living splendour smote | A |
| And why grey palmers holy are | C |
| And why grey minsters great in story | D |
| And grey skies ring the morning star | C |
| And grey hairs are a crown of glory | D |
| - | |
| My Lady clad herself in green | E |
| Like meadows where the wind waves pass | F |
| Then round my spirit spread I ween | E |
| A splendour of forgotten grass | F |
| Then all that dropped of stem or sod | A |
| Hoarded as emeralds might be | D |
| I bowed to every bush and trod | A |
| Amid the live grass fearfully | G |
| - | |
| My Lady clad herself in blue | G |
| Then on me like the seer long gone | E |
| The likeness of a sapphire grew | G |
| The throne of him that sat thereon | E |
| Then knew I why the Fashioner | G |
| Splashed reckless blue on sky and sea | D |
| And ere 'twas good enough for her | G |
| He tried it on Eternity | D |
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| Beneath the gnarled old Knowledge tree | D |
| Sat like an owl the evil sage | H |
| 'The World's a bubble ' solemnly | D |
| He read and turned a second page | H |
| 'A bubble then old crow ' I cried | A |
| 'God keep you in your weary wit | A |
| 'A bubble have you ever spied | A |
| 'The colours I have seen on it ' | - |
G. K. Chesterton
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