A Portrait Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHHH IIJI AKLM| Fair faces crowd on Christmas night | A |
| Like seven suns a row | B |
| But all beyond is the wolfish wind | C |
| And the crafty feet of the snow | B |
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| But through the rout one figure goes | D |
| With quick and quiet tread | E |
| Her robe is plain her form is frail | F |
| Wait if she turn her head | E |
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| I say no word of line or hue | G |
| But if that face you see | H |
| Your soul shall know the smile of faith's | H |
| Awful frivolity | H |
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| Know that in this grotesque old masque | I |
| Too loud we cannot sing | I |
| Or dance too wild or speak too wide | J |
| To praise a hidden thing | I |
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| That though the jest be old as night | A |
| Still shaketh sun and sphere | K |
| An everlasting laughter | L |
| Too loud for us to hear | M |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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