The Lamp Post Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFG HIFI JKLK HMIM HNON FPIP QRPR| Laugh your best O blazoned forests | A |
| Me ye shall not shift or shame | B |
| With your beauty here among you | C |
| Man hath set his spear of flame | B |
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| Lamp to lamp we send the signal | D |
| For our lord goes forth to war | E |
| Since a voice ere stars were builded | F |
| Bade him colonise a star | G |
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| Laugh ye cruel as the morning | H |
| Deck your heads with fruit and flower | I |
| Though our souls be sick with pity | F |
| Yet our hands are hard with power | I |
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| We have read your evil stories | J |
| We have heard the tiny yell | K |
| Through the voiceless conflagration | L |
| Of your green and shining hell | K |
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| And when men with fires and shouting | H |
| Break your old tyrannic pales | M |
| And where ruled a single spider | I |
| Laugh and weep a million tales | M |
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| This shall be your best of boasting | H |
| That some poet poor of spine | N |
| Full and sated with our wisdom | O |
| Full and fiery with our wine | N |
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| Shall steal out and make a treaty | F |
| With the grasses and the showers | P |
| Rail against the grey town mother | I |
| Fawn upon the scornful flowers | P |
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| Rest his head among the roses | Q |
| Where a quiet song bird sounds | R |
| And no sword made sharp for traitors | P |
| Hack him into meat for hounds | R |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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