The Praise Of Dust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JDKD LMNM AOPO JQR| 'What of vile dust ' the preacher said | A |
| Methought the whole world woke | B |
| The dead stone lived beneath my foot | C |
| And my whole body spoke | B |
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| 'You that play tyrant to the dust | D |
| And stamp its wrinkled face | E |
| This patient star that flings you not | F |
| Far into homeless space | E |
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| 'Come down out of your dusty shrine | G |
| The living dust to see | H |
| The flowers that at your sermon's end | I |
| Stand blazing silently | H |
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| 'Rich white and blood red blossom stones | J |
| Lichens like fire encrust | D |
| A gleam of blue a glare of gold | K |
| The vision of the dust | D |
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| 'Pass them all by till as you come | L |
| Where at a city's edge | M |
| Under a tree I know it well | N |
| Under a lattice ledge | M |
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| 'The sunshine falls on one brown head | A |
| You too O cold of clay | O |
| Eater of stones may haply hear | P |
| The trumpets of that day | O |
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| 'When God to all his paladins | J |
| By his own splendour swore | Q |
| To make a fairer face than heaven | R |
| Of dust and nothing more ' | - |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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