The Wise Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH IJIJ KBKKB LBLLB MNMMN FOFO FAFPQA| Step softly under snow or rain | A |
| To find the place where men can pray | B |
| The way is all so very plain | A |
| That we may lose the way | B |
| - | |
| Oh we have learnt to peer and pore | C |
| On tortured puzzles from our youth | D |
| We know all the labyrinthine lore | C |
| We are the three wise men of yore | C |
| And we know all things but truth | D |
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| We have gone round and round the hill | E |
| And lost the wood among the trees | F |
| And learnt long names for every ill | E |
| And serve the made gods naming still | E |
| The furies the Eumenides | F |
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| The gods of violence took the veil | G |
| Of vision and philosophy | H |
| The Serpent that brought all men bale | G |
| He bites his own accursed tail | G |
| And calls himself Eternity | H |
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| Go humbly it has hailed and snowed | I |
| With voices low and lanterns lit | J |
| So very simple is the road | I |
| That we may stray from it | J |
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| The world grows terrible and white | K |
| And blinding white the breaking day | B |
| We walk bewildered in the light | K |
| For something is too large for sight | K |
| And something much too plain to say | B |
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| The Child that was ere worlds begun | L |
| We need but walk a little way | B |
| We need but see a latch undone | L |
| The Child that played with moon and sun | L |
| Is playing with a little hay | B |
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| The house from which the heavens are fed | M |
| The old strange house that is our own | N |
| Where trick of words are never said | M |
| And Mercy is as plain as bread | M |
| And Honour is as hard as stone | N |
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| Go humbly humble are the skies | F |
| And low and large and fierce the Star | O |
| So very near the Manger lies | F |
| That we may travel far | O |
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| Hark Laughter like a lion wakes | F |
| To roar to the resounding plain | A |
| And the whole heaven shouts and shakes | F |
| For God Himself is born again | P |
| And we are little children walking | Q |
| Through the snow and rain | A |
G. K. Chesterton
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