Behind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB C D EEFF G| I saw an old man like a child | A |
| His blue eyes bright his white hair wild | A |
| Who turned for ever and might not stop | B |
| Round and round like an urchin's top | B |
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| 'Fool ' I cried 'while you spin round | C |
| 'Others grow wise are praised are crowned ' | - |
| Ever the same round road he trod | D |
| 'This is better I seek for God ' | - |
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| 'We see the whole world left and right | E |
| Yet at the blind back hides from sight | E |
| The unseen Master that drives us forth | F |
| To East and West to South and North | F |
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| 'Over my shoulder for eighty years | G |
| I have looked for the gleam of the sphere of spheres ' | - |
| 'In all your turning what have you found ' | - |
| 'At least I know why the world goes round ' | - |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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