The Pessimist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB BBCC DDEE FFGH IIA A| You that have snarled through the ages take your answer and go | A |
| I know your hoary question the riddle that all men know | A |
| You have weighed the stars in a balance and grasped the skies in a span | B |
| Take if you must have answer the word of a common man | B |
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| Deep in my life lies buried one love unhealed unshriven | B |
| One hunger still shall haunt me yea in the streets of heaven | B |
| This is the burden babbler this is the curse shall cling | C |
| This is the thing I bring you this is the pleasant thing | C |
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| 'Gainst you and all your sages no joy of mine shall strive | D |
| This one dead self shall shatter the men you call alive | D |
| My grief I send to smite you no pleasure no belief | E |
| Lord of the battered grievance what do you know of grief | E |
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| I only know the praises to heaven that one man gave | F |
| That he came on earth for an instant to stand beside a grave | F |
| The peace of a field of battle where flowers are born of blood | G |
| I only know one evil that makes the whole world good | H |
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| Beneath this single sorrow the globe of moon and sphere | I |
| Turns to a single jewel so bright and brittle and dear | I |
| That I dread lest God should drop it to be dashed into stars below | A |
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| You that have snarled through the ages take your answer and go | A |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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