Rubens' Innocents Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDECECFGFGHCHC ICIC| IF all those tumbling babes of heaven | A |
| Plump cherubim with blown cheeks | B |
| Could vault in these warm skies or leaven | A |
| Our starry silent mountain peaks | B |
| O painter of chub faced shining thighed | C |
| Fat Ganymedes of God what noise | D |
| Would churn between the clouds and stride | C |
| Far downward from those rose mouthed boys | D |
| Down to our spires their lusty whooping | E |
| Fanfares of Paradise would speed | C |
| Far down to dark faced clergy stooping | E |
| Round altars of their doleful creed | C |
| And God whose wings of silver sweep | F |
| Like metal afire on heaven's rim | G |
| Would daze them with a twinkling peep | F |
| Of those young moon stained cherubim | G |
| Then for a trice their skies might sparkle | H |
| And some gold ichor splash amid | C |
| Those most respectable patriarchal | H |
| Purveyors of stale pardons hid | C |
| Behind their old cathedral closes | I |
| From this unguessed unguessable God | C |
| Shining before their learned noses | I |
| Down roads that Peter Rubens trod | C |
Kenneth Slessor
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