The Song Of The Strange Ascetic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED AFGFAHIH AJKJALML ANONANAN PQRQPASA| If I had been a Heathen | A |
| I'd have praised the purple vine | B |
| My slaves should dig the vineyards | C |
| And I would drink the wine | B |
| But Higgins is a Heathen | A |
| And his slaves grow lean and grey | D |
| That he may drink some tepid milk | E |
| Exactly twice a day | D |
| - | |
| If I had been a Heathen | A |
| I'd have crowned Neaera's curls | F |
| And filled my life with love affairs | G |
| My house with dancing girls | F |
| But Higgins is a Heathen | A |
| And to lecture rooms is forced | H |
| Where his aunts who are not married | I |
| Demand to be divorced | H |
| - | |
| If I had been a Heathen | A |
| I'd have sent my armies forth | J |
| And dragged behind my chariots | K |
| The Chieftains of the North | J |
| But Higgins is a Heathen | A |
| And he drives the dreary quill | L |
| To lend the poor that funny cash | M |
| That makes them poorer still | L |
| - | |
| If I had been a Heathen | A |
| I'd have piled my pyre on high | N |
| And in a great red whirlwind | O |
| Gone roaring to the sky | N |
| But Higgins is a Heathen | A |
| And a richer man than I | N |
| And they put him in an oven | A |
| Just as if he were a pie | N |
| - | |
| Now who that runs can read it | P |
| The riddle that I write | Q |
| Of why this poor old sinner | R |
| Should sin without delight | Q |
| But I I cannot read it | P |
| Although I run and run | A |
| Of them that do not have the faith | S |
| And will not have the fun | A |
G. K. Chesterton
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