The Great Minimum Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GFHFH IJIJ FKFL| It is something to have wept as we have wept | A |
| It is something to have done as we have done | B |
| It is something to have watched when all men slept | A |
| And seen the stars which never see the sun | B |
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| It is something to have smelt the mystic rose | C |
| Although it break and leave the thorny rods | D |
| It is something to have hungered once as those | C |
| Must hunger who have ate the bread of gods | D |
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| To have seen you and your unforgotten face | E |
| Brave as a blast of trumpets for the fray | F |
| Pure as white lilies in a watery space | E |
| It were something though you went from me today | F |
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| To have known the things that from the weak are | G |
| furled | F |
| Perilous ancient passions strange and high | H |
| It is something to be wiser then the world | F |
| It is something to be older then the sky | H |
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| In a time of sceptic moths and cynic rusts | I |
| And fattened lives that of their sweetness tire | J |
| In a world of flying loves and fading lusts | I |
| It is something to be sure of a desire | J |
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| Lo blessed are our ears for they have heard | F |
| Yea blessed are our eyes for they have seen | K |
| Let the thunder break on man and beast and bird | F |
| And the lightning It is something to have been | L |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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