The Trinkets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHDHDIJI HKLKKBHB| A wandering world of rivers | A |
| A wavering world of trees | B |
| If the world grow dim and dizzy | C |
| With all changes and degrees | B |
| It is but Our Lady's mirror | D |
| Hung dreaming in its place | E |
| Shining with only shadows | F |
| Till she wakes it with her face | E |
| - | |
| The standing whirlpool of the stars | G |
| The wheel of all the world | H |
| Is a ring on Our Lady's finger | D |
| With the suns and moons empearled | H |
| With stars for stones to please her | D |
| Who sits playing with her rings | I |
| With the great heart that a woman has | J |
| And the love of little things | I |
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| Wings of the whirlwind of the world | H |
| From here to Ispahan | K |
| Spurning the flying forests | L |
| Are light as Our Lady's fan | K |
| For all things violent here and vain | K |
| Lie open and all at ease | B |
| Where God has girded heaven to guard | H |
| Her holy vanities | B |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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