The Strange Music Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDD EEFF GGHI| Other loves may sink and settle other loves may loose and slack | A |
| But I wander like a minstrel with a harp upon my back | A |
| Though the harp be on my bosom though I finger and I fret | B |
| Still my hope is all before me for I cannot play it yet | B |
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| In your strings is hid a music that no hand hath e'er let fall | C |
| In your soul is sealed a pleasure that you have not known at all | C |
| Pleasure subtle as your spirit strange and slender as your frame | D |
| Fiercer than the pain that folds you softer than your sorrow's name | D |
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| Not as mine my soul's annointed not as mine the rude and light | E |
| Easy mirth of many faces swaggering pride of song and fight | E |
| Something stranger something sweeter something waiting you afar | F |
| Secret as your stricken senses magic as your sorrows are | F |
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| But on this God's harp supernal stretched but to be stricken once | G |
| Hoary time is a beginner Life a bungler Death a dunce | G |
| But I will not fear to match them no by God I will not fear | H |
| I will learn you I will play you and the stars stand still to hear | I |
G. K. Chesterton
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