Envoy Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK JMNM HOPQ KRMR KSTS UVMV| Clear was the night the moon was young | A |
| The larkspurs in the plots | B |
| Mingled their orange with the gold | C |
| Of the forget me nots | B |
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| The poppies seemed a silver mist | D |
| So darkly fell the gloom | E |
| You scarce had guessed yon crimson streaks | F |
| Were buttercups in bloom | E |
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| But one thing moved a little child | G |
| Crashed through the flower and fern | H |
| And all my soul rose up to greet | I |
| The sage of whom I learn | H |
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| I looked into his awful eyes | J |
| I waited his decree | K |
| I made ingenious attempts | L |
| To sit upon his knee | K |
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| The babe upraised his wondering eyes | J |
| And timidly he said | M |
| A trend towards experiment | N |
| In modern minds is bred | M |
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| I feel the will to roam to learn | H |
| By test experience nous | O |
| That fire is hot and ocean deep | P |
| And wolves carnivorous | Q |
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| My brain demands complexity | K |
| The lisping cherub cried | R |
| I looked at him and only said | M |
| Go on The world is wide | R |
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| A tear rolled down his pinafore | K |
| Yet from my life must pass | S |
| The simple love of sun and moon | T |
| The old games in the grass | S |
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| Now that my back is to my home | U |
| Could these again be found | V |
| I looked on him and only said | M |
| Go on The world is round | V |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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