For Four Guilds: I. The Glass-stainers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF CBIBJB KLMLLL| To every Man his Mystery | A |
| A trade and only one | B |
| The masons make the hives of men | C |
| The domes of grey or dun | B |
| But we have wrought in rose and gold | D |
| The houses of the sun | B |
| - | |
| The shipwrights build the houses high | E |
| Whose green foundations sway | F |
| Alive with fish like little flames | G |
| When the wind goes out to slay | F |
| But we abide with painted sails | H |
| The cyclone of the day | F |
| - | |
| The weavers make the clothes of men | C |
| And coats for everyone | B |
| They walk the streets like sunset clouds | I |
| But we have woven and spun | B |
| In scarlet or in golden green | J |
| The gay coats of the sun | B |
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| You whom the usurers and the lords | K |
| With insolent liveries trod | L |
| Deep in dark church behold above | M |
| Their lance lengths by a rod | L |
| Where we have blazed the tabard | L |
| Of the trumpeter of God | L |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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