Gloria In Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEED FGFGHIIH JKJKLMML NONOPQQP| There has fallen on earth for a token | A |
| A god too great for the sky | B |
| He has burst out of all things and broken | A |
| The bounds of eternity | C |
| Into time and the terminal land | D |
| He has strayed like a thief or a lover | E |
| For the wine of the world brims over | E |
| Its splendour is spilt on the sand | D |
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| Who is proud when the heavens are humble | F |
| Who mounts if the mountains fall | G |
| If the fixed stars topple and tumble | F |
| And a deluge of love drowns all | G |
| Who rears up his head for a crown | H |
| Who holds up his will for a warrant | I |
| Who strives with the starry torrent | I |
| When all that is good goes down | H |
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| For in dread of such falling and failing | J |
| The fallen angels fell | K |
| Inverted in insolence scaling | J |
| The hanging mountain of hell | K |
| But unmeasured of plummet and rod | L |
| Too deep for their sight to scan | M |
| Outrushing the fall of man | M |
| Is the height of the fall of God | L |
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| Glory to God in the Lowest | N |
| The spout of the stars in spate | O |
| Where thunderbolt thinks to be slowest | N |
| And the lightning fears to be late | O |
| As men dive for sunken gem | P |
| Pursuing we hunt and hound it | Q |
| The fallen star has found it | Q |
| In the cavern of Bethlehem | P |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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