The World's Lover Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFG GDGD HGHG D DI DDD| My eyes are full of lonely mirth | A |
| Reeling with want and worn with scars | B |
| For pride of every stone on earth | A |
| I shake my spear at all the stars | B |
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| A live bat beats my crest above | C |
| Lean foxes nose where I have trod | D |
| And on my naked face the love | C |
| Which is the loneliness of God | D |
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| Outlawed since that great day gone by | E |
| When before prince and pope and queen | F |
| I stood and spoke a blasphemy | G |
| 'Behold the summer leaves are green ' | - |
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| They cursed me what was that to me | G |
| Who in that summer darkness furled | D |
| With but an owl and snail to see | G |
| Had blessed and conquered all the world | D |
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| They bound me to the scourging stake | H |
| They laid their whips of thorn on me | G |
| I wept to see the green rods break | H |
| Though blood be beautiful to see | G |
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| Beneath the gallows' foot abhorred | D |
| The crowds cry 'Crucify ' and 'Kill ' | - |
| Higher the priests sing 'Praise the Lord | D |
| The warlock dies' and higher still | I |
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| Shall heaven and earth hear one cry sent | D |
| Even from the hideous gibbet height | D |
| 'Praise to the Lord Omnipotent | D |
| The vultures have a feast to night ' | - |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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