God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIE JKLMNOFP QRSTUVWXYM Z| In his malodorous brain what slugs and mire | A |
| Lanthorned in his oblique eyes guttering burned | B |
| His body lodged a rat where men nursed souls | C |
| The world flashed grape green eyes of a foiled cat | D |
| To him On fragments of an old shrunk power | E |
| On shy and maimed on women wrung awry | F |
| He lay a bullying hulk to crush them more | G |
| But when one fearless turned and clawed like bronze | H |
| Cringing was easy to blunt these stern paws | I |
| And he would weigh the heavier on those after | E |
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| Who rests in God's mean flattery now Your wealth | J |
| Is but his cunning to make death more hard | K |
| Your iron sinews take more pain in breaking | L |
| And he has made the market for your beauty | M |
| Too poor to buy although you die to sell | N |
| Only that he has never heard of sleep | O |
| And when the cats come out the rats are sly | F |
| Here we are safe till he slinks in at dawn | P |
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| But he has gnawed a fibre from strange roots | Q |
| And in the morning some pale wonder ceases | R |
| Things are not strange and strange things are forgetful | S |
| Ah if the day were arid somehow lost | T |
| Out of us but it is as hair of us | U |
| And only in the hush no wind stirs it | V |
| And in the light vague trouble lifts and breathes | W |
| And restlessness still shadows the lost ways | X |
| The fingers shut on voices that pass through | Y |
| Where blind farewells are taken easily | M |
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| Ah this miasma of a rotting God | Z |
Isaac Rosenberg
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