Paradise Lost Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GCHIJ KCLMN OCPP| What hues the sunlight had how rich the shadows were | A |
| The blue and tangled shadows dropped from the crusted branches | B |
| Of the warped apple trees upon the orchard grass | C |
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| How heavenly pure the blue of two smooth eggs that lay | D |
| Light on the rounded mud that lined the thrush's nest | E |
| And what a deep delight the spots that speckled them | F |
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| And that small tinkling stream that ran from hedge to hedge | G |
| Shadowed over by the trees and glinting in the sunbeams | C |
| How clear the water was how flat the beds of sand | H |
| With travelling bubbles mirrored each one a golden world | I |
| To my enchanted eyes Then earth was new to me | J |
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| But now I walk this earth as it were a lumber room | K |
| And sometimes live a week seeing nothing but mere herbs | C |
| Mere stones mere passing birds nor look at anything | L |
| Long enough to feel its conscious calm assault | M |
| The strength of it the word the royal heart of it | N |
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| Childhood will not return but have I not the will | O |
| To strain my turbid mind that soils all outer things | C |
| And open again to all the miracles of light | P |
| To see the world with the eyes of a blind man gaining sight | P |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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