The Desecraters Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD DEFE FGHG DIII| Witness all that unrepenting | A |
| Feathers flying music high | B |
| I go down to death unshaken | C |
| By your mean philosophy | D |
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| For your wages take my body | D |
| That at least to you I leave | E |
| Set the sulky plumes upon it | F |
| Bid the grinning mummers grieve | E |
| - | |
| Stand in silence steep your raiment | F |
| In the night that hath no star | G |
| Don the mortal dress of devils | H |
| Blacker than their spirits are | G |
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| Since ye may not of your mercy | D |
| Ere I lie on such a hearse | I |
| Hurl me to the living jackals | I |
| God hath built for sepulchres | I |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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