The Red Sea Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADEF GHAHEIAI JKLKMNIO PEQEABAB| Our souls shall be Leviathans | A |
| In purple seas of wine | B |
| When drunkenness is dead with death | C |
| And drink is all divine | B |
| Learning in those immortal vats | A |
| What mortal vineyards mean | D |
| For only in heaven we shall know | E |
| How happy we have been | F |
| - | |
| Like clouds that wallow in the wind | G |
| Be free to drift and drink | H |
| Tower without insolence when we rise | A |
| Without surrender sink | H |
| Dreams dizzy and crazy we shall know | E |
| And have no need to write | I |
| Our blameless blasphemies of praise | A |
| Our nightmares of delight | I |
| - | |
| For so in such misshapen shape | J |
| The vision came to me | K |
| Where such titanian dolphins dark | L |
| Roll in a sunset sea | K |
| Dark with dense colours strange and strong | M |
| As terrible true love | N |
| Haloed like fish in phospher light | I |
| The holy monsters move | O |
| - | |
| Measure is here and law to learn | P |
| When honour rules it so | E |
| To lift the glass and lay it down | Q |
| Or break the glass and go | E |
| But when the world's New Deluge boils | A |
| From the New Noah's vine | B |
| Our souls shall be Leviathans | A |
| In sanguine seas of wine | B |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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