The Higher Unity Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HBIB JKLM NOPO| The Rev Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands and it is feared that he may have been devoured by the natives as there has been a considerable revival of religious customs among the Polynesians A real paragraph from a real Paper only the names altered | A |
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| It was Isaiah Bunter | B |
| Who sailed to the world's end | C |
| And spread religion in a way | D |
| That he did not intend | C |
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| He gave if not the gospel feast | E |
| At least a ritual meal | F |
| And in a highly painful sense | G |
| He was devoured with zeal | F |
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| And who are we as Henson says | H |
| That we should close the door | B |
| And should not Evangelicals | I |
| All jump at shedding Gore | B |
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| And many a man will melt in man | J |
| Becoming one not two | K |
| When smacks across the startled earth | L |
| The Kiss of Kikuyu | M |
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| When Man is the Turk and the Atheist | N |
| Essene Erastian Whig | O |
| And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic | P |
| And the crew of the Captain's gig | O |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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