The Earth's Shame Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHHH| Name not his deed in shuddering and in haste | A |
| We dragged him darkly o'er the windy fell | B |
| That night there was a gibbet in the waste | A |
| And a new sin in hell | B |
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| Be his deed hid from commonwealths and kings | C |
| By all men born be one true tale forgot | D |
| But three things braver than all earthly things | C |
| Faced him and feared him not | D |
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| Above his head and sunken secret face | E |
| Nested the sparrow's young and dropped not dead | F |
| From the red blood and slime of that lost place | E |
| Grew daisies white not red | F |
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| And from high heaven looking upon him | G |
| Slowly upon the face of God did come | H |
| A smile the cherubim and seraphim | H |
| Hid all their faces from | H |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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