The Shepherd-s Brow, Fronting Forked Lightning, Owns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCBCCBThe shepherd's brow fronting forked lightning owns | A |
The horror and the havoc and the glory | B |
Of it Angels fall they are towers from heaven a story | B |
Of just majestical and giant groans | A |
But man we scaffold of score brittle bones | A |
Who breathe from groundlong babyhood to hoary | B |
Age gasp whose breath is our memento mori | B |
What bass is our viol for tragic tones | A |
He Hand to mouth he lives and voids with shame | C |
And blazoned in however bold the name | C |
Man Jack the man is just his mate a hussy | B |
And I that die these deaths that feed this flame | C |
That in smooth spoons spy life s masque mirrored tame | C |
My tempests there my fire and fever fussy | B |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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