'vulgarised' Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDEF BGBG CHBH IJKJ LMNM| All round they murmur 'O profane | A |
| Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold' | B |
| But I by God would sooner be | C |
| Some knight in shattering wars of old | B |
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| In brown outlandish arms to ride | B |
| And shout my love to every star | D |
| With lungs to make a poor maid's name | E |
| Deafen the iron ears of war | F |
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| Here where these subtle cowards crowd | B |
| To stand and so to speak of love | G |
| That the four corners of the world | B |
| Should hear it and take heed thereof | G |
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| That to this shrine obscure there be | C |
| One witness before all men given | H |
| As naked as the hanging Christ | B |
| As shameless as the sun in heaven | H |
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| These whimperers have they spared to us | I |
| One dripping woe one reeking sin | J |
| These thieves that shatter their own graves | K |
| To prove the soul is dead within | J |
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| They talk by God is it not time | L |
| Some of Love's chosen broke the girth | M |
| And told the good all men have known | N |
| Since the first morning of the earth | M |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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