The World's Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFG GDGD HGHG D DI DDDMy eyes are full of lonely mirth | A |
Reeling with want and worn with scars | B |
For pride of every stone on earth | A |
I shake my spear at all the stars | B |
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A live bat beats my crest above | C |
Lean foxes nose where I have trod | D |
And on my naked face the love | C |
Which is the loneliness of God | D |
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Outlawed since that great day gone by | E |
When before prince and pope and queen | F |
I stood and spoke a blasphemy | G |
'Behold the summer leaves are green ' | - |
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They cursed me what was that to me | G |
Who in that summer darkness furled | D |
With but an owl and snail to see | G |
Had blessed and conquered all the world | D |
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They bound me to the scourging stake | H |
They laid their whips of thorn on me | G |
I wept to see the green rods break | H |
Though blood be beautiful to see | G |
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Beneath the gallows' foot abhorred | D |
The crowds cry 'Crucify ' and 'Kill ' | - |
Higher the priests sing 'Praise the Lord | D |
The warlock dies' and higher still | I |
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Shall heaven and earth hear one cry sent | D |
Even from the hideous gibbet height | D |
'Praise to the Lord Omnipotent | D |
The vultures have a feast to night ' | - |
G. K. Chesterton
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