The Sword Of Surprise Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GFHF FIJI| Sunder me from my bones O sword of God | A |
| Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees | B |
| That I whose heart goes up with the soaring woods | C |
| May marvel as much at these | B |
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| Sunder me from my blood that in the dark | D |
| I hear that red ancestral river run | E |
| Like branching buried floods that find the sea | F |
| But never see the sun | E |
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| Give me miraculous eyes to see my eyes | G |
| Those rolling mirrors made alive in me | F |
| Terrible crystal more incredible | H |
| Than all the things they see | F |
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| Sunder me from my soul that I may see | F |
| The sins like streaming wounds the life's brave beat | I |
| Till I shall save myself as I would save | J |
| A stranger in the street | I |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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