Sunt Leones Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCDEDDFFFGGHHIIJJ KL| The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena | A |
| By indulging native appetites played was now been seen a | A |
| Not entirely negligible part | B |
| In consolidating at the very start | B |
| The position of the Early Christian Church | C |
| Initiatory rights are always bloody | D |
| In the lions it appears | E |
| From contemporary art made a study | D |
| Of dyeing Coliseum sands a ruddy | D |
| Liturgically sacrificial hue | F |
| And if the Christians felt a little blue | F |
| Will people being eaten often do | F |
| Theirs was the death and there's was a crown undying | G |
| A state of things which must be satisfying | G |
| My point which up to this has been obscured | H |
| Is that it was the lions who procured | H |
| By chewing up blood gristle flesh and bone | I |
| The martyrdoms on which the church has grown | I |
| I only write this poem because I thought it rather looked | J |
| As if the part the lions played was being overlooked | J |
| By lions' jaws great benefits and blessings were begotten | K |
| And so our debt to Lionhood must never be forgotten | L |
Stevie Smith
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