A Creed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCD EDEDFG HIHIJJ KLMLNO PQPRSS TUTUUU UTUTUU| I hold that when a person dies | A |
| His soul returns again to earth | B |
| Arrayed in some new flesh disguise | A |
| Another mother gives him birth | B |
| With sturdier limbs and brighter brain | C |
| The old soul takes the road again | D |
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| Such is my own belief and trust | E |
| This hand this hand that holds the pen | D |
| Has many a hundred times been dust | E |
| And turned as dust to dust again | D |
| These eyes of mine have blinked and shown | F |
| In Thebes in Troy in Babylon | G |
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| All that I rightly think or do | H |
| Or make or spoil or bless or blast | I |
| Is curse or blessing justly due | H |
| For sloth or effort in the past | I |
| My life's a statement of the sum | J |
| Of vice indulged or overcome | J |
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| I know that in my lives to be | K |
| My sorry heart will ache and burn | L |
| And worship unavailingly | M |
| The woman whom I used to spurn | L |
| And shake to see another have | N |
| The love I spurned the love she gave | O |
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| And I shall know in angry words | P |
| In gibes and mocks and many a tear | Q |
| A carrion flock of homing birds | P |
| The gibes and scorns I uttered here | R |
| The brave word that I failed to speak | S |
| Will brand me dastard on the cheek | S |
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| And as I wander on the roads | T |
| I shall be helped and healed and blessed | U |
| Dear words shall cheer and be as goads | T |
| To urge to heights before unguessed | U |
| My road shall be the road I made | U |
| All that I gave shall be repaid | U |
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| So shall I fight so shall I tread | U |
| In this long war beneath the stars | T |
| So shall a glory wreathe my head | U |
| So shall I faint and show the scars | T |
| Until this case this clogging mould | U |
| Be smithied all to kingly gold | U |
John Masefield
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