Divine Detachment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHIH JKJKLMLM| One day the Great Designer sought | A |
| His Clerk of Birth and Death | B |
| Said he Two souls are in my thought | A |
| to whom I gave life breath | B |
| I deemed my work was fitly done | C |
| But yester eve I saw | D |
| That in the finished brain of one | C |
| There was a tiny flaw | D |
| - | |
| It worried me and I would know | E |
| Since I am all to blame | F |
| What happened to them down below | E |
| Of honour or of shame | F |
| For if the later did befall | G |
| My sorrow will be grave | H |
| Then numbers astronomical | I |
| unto the Clerk he gave | H |
| - | |
| The Keeper of the Rolls replied | J |
| Of them I've little trace | K |
| But one he was a Prince of pride | J |
| And one of lowly race | K |
| One was a Holy Saint proclaimed | L |
| For one no hell sufficed | M |
| Let's see the last was Nero named | L |
| The other Jesus Christ | M |
Robert Service
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