The Rainbow Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH IJIJKLKL| These things are real said one and bade me gaze | A |
| On black and mighty shapes of iron and stone | B |
| On murder on madness on lust on towns ablaze | A |
| And on a thing made all of rattling bone | B |
| What said he will you bring to match with these | C |
| Yea War is real I said and real is Death | D |
| A little while mortal realities | C |
| But Love and Hope draw an immortal breath | D |
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| Think you the storm that wrecks a summer day | E |
| With funeral blackness and with leaping fire | F |
| And boiling roar of rain more real than they | E |
| That when the warring heavens begin to tire | F |
| With tender fingers on the tumult paint | G |
| Spanning the huddled wrack from base to cope | H |
| With soft effulgence like some haloed saint | G |
| The rainbow bridge eternal that is Hope | H |
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| Deem her no phantom born of desperate dreams | I |
| Ere man yet was 'twas hope that wrought him man | J |
| The blind earth climbing skyward by her gleams | I |
| Hoped and the beauty of the world began | J |
| Prophetic of all loveliness to be | K |
| Though God Himself seem from His station hurled | L |
| Still shall the blackest hell look up and see | K |
| Hope's rainbow on the summits of the world | L |
Richard Le Gallienne
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