The Shepherd's Brow, Fronting Forked Lightning, Owns Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACCBCCB

The shepherd's brow fronting forked lightning ownsA
The horror and the havoc and the gloryB
Of it Angels fall they are towers from heaven a storyB
Of just majestical and giant groansA
But man we scaffold of score brittle bonesA
Who breathe from groundlong babyhood to hoaryB
Age gasp whose breath is our memento moriB
What bass is our viol for tragic tonesA
He Hand to mouth he lives and voids with shameC
And blazoned in however bold the nameC
Man Jack the man is just his mate a hussyB
And I that die these deaths that feed this flameC
That in smooth spoons spy life's masque mirrored tameC
My tempests there my fire and fever fussyB

Gerard Manley Hopkins



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