Strange Are The Ways Of Men Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BBDB EDFD DGHG IBJB BKLM NOPO| STRANGE are the ways of men | A |
| And strange the ways of God | B |
| We tread the mazy paths | C |
| That all our fathers trod | B |
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| We tread them undismayed | B |
| And undismayed behold | B |
| The portents of the sky | D |
| The things that were of old | B |
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| The fiery stars pursue | E |
| Their course in heav'n on high | D |
| And round the 'leaguered town | F |
| Crest tossing heroes cry | D |
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| Crest tossing heroes cry | D |
| And martial fifes declare | G |
| How small to mortal minds | H |
| Is merely mortal care | G |
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| And to the clang of steel | I |
| And cry of piercing flute | B |
| Upon the azure peaks | J |
| A God shall plant his foot | B |
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| A God in arms shall stand | B |
| And seeing wide and far | K |
| The green and golden earth | L |
| The killing tide of war | M |
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| He with uplifted arm | N |
| Shall to the skies proclaim | O |
| The gleeful fate of man | P |
| The noble road to fame | O |
Robert Louis Stevenson
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