The Fish Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBDB EFGF HEGE BEBE| Dark the sea was but I saw him | A |
| One great head with goggle eyes | B |
| Like a diabolic cherub | C |
| Flying in those fallen skies | B |
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| I have heard the hoarse deniers | B |
| I have known the wordy wars | B |
| I have seen a man by shouting | D |
| Seek to orphan all the stars | B |
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| I have seen a fool half fashioned | E |
| Borrow from the heavens a tongue | F |
| So to curse them more at leisure | G |
| And I trod him not as dung | F |
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| For I saw that finny goblin | H |
| Hidden in the abyss untrod | E |
| And I knew there can be laughter | G |
| On the secret face of God | E |
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| Blow the trumpets crown the sages | B |
| Bring the age by reason fed | E |
| He that sitteth in the heavens | B |
| 'He shall laugh' the prophet said | E |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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