The Lamp Post Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIFI JKLK HMIM HNON FPIP QRPRLaugh your best O blazoned forests | A |
Me ye shall not shift or shame | B |
With your beauty here among you | C |
Man hath set his spear of flame | B |
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Lamp to lamp we send the signal | D |
For our lord goes forth to war | E |
Since a voice ere stars were builded | F |
Bade him colonise a star | G |
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Laugh ye cruel as the morning | H |
Deck your heads with fruit and flower | I |
Though our souls be sick with pity | F |
Yet our hands are hard with power | I |
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We have read your evil stories | J |
We have heard the tiny yell | K |
Through the voiceless conflagration | L |
Of your green and shining hell | K |
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And when men with fires and shouting | H |
Break your old tyrannic pales | M |
And where ruled a single spider | I |
Laugh and weep a million tales | M |
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This shall be your best of boasting | H |
That some poet poor of spine | N |
Full and sated with our wisdom | O |
Full and fiery with our wine | N |
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Shall steal out and make a treaty | F |
With the grasses and the showers | P |
Rail against the grey town mother | I |
Fawn upon the scornful flowers | P |
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Rest his head among the roses | Q |
Where a quiet song bird sounds | R |
And no sword made sharp for traitors | P |
Hack him into meat for hounds | R |
G. K. Chesterton
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