Our Lady Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI IJIJ| How far is it to peace the piper sighed | A |
| The solitary sweating as he paused | B |
| Asphalt the noon the ravens terrified | A |
| Fled carrion thunder that percussion caused | C |
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| The envelope of earth was powder loud | D |
| The taut wings shivered driven at the sun | E |
| The piper put his pipe away and bowed | D |
| Not here he said I hunt the love cool one | E |
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| The dancer with the clipped hair Where is she | F |
| We shook our heads parting for him to pass | G |
| Our lady was of no such trim degree | F |
| And none of us had seen her face alas | G |
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| She was the very ridges that we must scale | H |
| Securing the rough top And how she smiled | I |
| Was how our strength would issue Not to fail | H |
| Was having her gigantic undefiled | I |
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| For homely goddess big as the world that burned | I |
| Grandmother and taskmistress frild and town | J |
| We let the stranger go but when we turned | I |
| Our lady lived fierce in each other's frown | J |
Mark Van Doren
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