Alone Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC AEEA FGH| Blessings there are of cradle and of clan | A |
| Blessings that fall of priests' and princes' hands | B |
| But never blessing full of lives and lands | B |
| Broad as the blessing of a lonely man | A |
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| Though that old king fell from his primal throne | C |
| And ate among the cattle yet this pride | D |
| Had found him in the deepest grass and cried | D |
| An 'Ecce Homo' with the trumpets blown | C |
| - | |
| And no mad tyrant with almighty ban | A |
| Who in strong madness dreams himself divine | E |
| But hears through fumes of flattery and of wine | E |
| The thunder of this blessing name him man | A |
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| Let all earth rot past saints' and seraphs' plea | F |
| Yet shall a Voice cry through its last lost war | G |
| 'This is the world this red wreck of a star | H |
| That a man blessed beneath an alder tree ' | - |
G. K. Chesterton
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