A Little Litany Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GCHC IJKJ LMNM NOKO| When God turned back eternity and was young | A |
| Ancient of Days grown little for your mirth | B |
| As under the low arch the land is bright | C |
| Peered through you gate of heaven and saw the earth | B |
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| Or shutting out his shining skies awhile | D |
| Built you about him for a house of gold | E |
| To see in pictured walls his storied world | F |
| Return upon him as a tale is told | E |
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| Or found his mirror there the only glass | G |
| That would not break with that unbearable light | C |
| Till in a corner of the high dark house | H |
| God looked on God as ghosts meet in the night | C |
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| Star of his morning that unfallen star | I |
| In that strange starry overturn of space | J |
| When earth and sky changed places for an hour | K |
| And heaven looked upwards in a human face | J |
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| Or young on your strong knees and lifted up | L |
| Wisdom cried out whose voice is in the street | M |
| And more than twilight of twiformed cherubim | N |
| Made of his throne indeed a mercy seat | M |
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| Or risen from play at your pale raiment's hem | N |
| God grown adventurous from all time's repose | O |
| Or your tall body climbed the ivory tower | K |
| And kissed upon your mouth the mystic rose | O |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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