By The Babe Unborn Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DCEC DFGF HIJI KLML NOPO| If trees were tall and grasses short | A |
| As in some crazy tale | B |
| If here and there a sea were blue | C |
| Beyond the breaking pale | B |
| - | |
| If a fixed fire hung in the air | D |
| To warm me one day through | C |
| If deep green hair grew on great hills | E |
| I know what I should do | C |
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| In dark I lie dreaming that there | D |
| Are great eyes cold or kind | F |
| And twisted streets and silent doors | G |
| And living men behind | F |
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| Let storm clouds come better an hour | H |
| And leave to weep and fight | I |
| Than all the ages I have ruled | J |
| The empires of the night | I |
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| I think that if they gave me leave | K |
| Within that world to stand | L |
| I would be good through all the day | M |
| I spent in fairyland | L |
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| They should not hear a word from me | N |
| Of selfishness or scorn | O |
| If only I could find the door | P |
| If only I were born | O |
G. K. Chesterton
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