The Mirror Of Madmen Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHFF IIJJ JJKK LLF MMGG| I dreamed a dream of heaven white as frost | A |
| The splendid stillness of a living host | B |
| Vast choirs of upturned faces line o'er line | C |
| Then my blood froze for every face was mine | C |
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| Spirits with sunset plumage throng and pass | D |
| Glassed darkly in the sea of gold and glass | D |
| But still on every side in every spot | E |
| I saw a million selves who saw me not | E |
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| I fled to quiet wastes where on a stone | F |
| Perchance I found a saint who sat alone | F |
| I came behind he turned with slow sweet grace | G |
| And faced me with my happy hateful face | G |
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| I cowered like one that in a tower doth bide | H |
| Shut in by mirrors upon every side | H |
| Then I saw islanded in skies alone | F |
| And silent one that sat upon a throne | F |
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| His robe was bordered with rich rose and gold | I |
| Green purple silver out of sunsets old | I |
| But o'er his face a great cloud edged with fire | J |
| Because it covereth the world's desire | J |
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| But as I gazed a silent worshipper | J |
| Methought the cloud began to faintly stir | J |
| Then I fell flat and screamed with grovelling head | K |
| 'If thou hast any lightning strike me dead | K |
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| 'But spare a brow where the clean sunlight fell | L |
| The crown of a new sin that sickens hell | L |
| Let me not look aloft and see mine own | F |
| Feature and form upon the Judgment throne ' | - |
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| Then my dream snapped and with a heart that leapt | M |
| I saw across the tavern where I slept | M |
| The sight of all my life most full of grace | G |
| A gin damned drunkard's wan half witted face | G |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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