The Great Minimum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF FGFG HIHI FJFKIt is something to have wept as we have wept | A |
It is something to have done as we have done | B |
It is something to have watched when all men slept | A |
And seen the stars which never see the sun | B |
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It is something to have smelt the mystic rose | C |
Although it break and leave the thorny rods | D |
It is something to have hungered once as those | C |
Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods | D |
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To have seen you and your unforgotten face | E |
Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray | F |
Pure as white lilies in a watery space | E |
It were something though you went from me today | F |
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To have known the things that from the weak are furled | F |
Perilous ancient passions strange and high | G |
It is something to be wiser than the world | F |
It is something to be older than the sky | G |
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In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts | H |
And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire | I |
In a world of flying loves and fading lusts | H |
It is something to be sure of a desire | I |
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Lo blessed are our ears for they have heard | F |
Yea blessed are our eyes for they have seen | J |
Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird | F |
And the lightning It is something to have been | K |
G. K. Chesterton
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