A Creed Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCC DDEE FFGG HHII| That I should live and look with open eyes | A |
| I count as half my claim to Paradise | B |
| I have not crept beneath cathedral arches | C |
| But bathed in streams beneath the silver larches | C |
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| And have not grovelled to the Sunday priest | D |
| But found an unconfined and daily feast | D |
| Was called ungodly and to those who blamed | E |
| Laughed back defiance and was not ashamed | E |
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| Some hold their duty to be mournful why | F |
| I cannot love your weeping poets I | F |
| Am sad in winter but in summer gay | G |
| And vary with each variable day | G |
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| And though the pious cavilled at my mirth | H |
| At least I rendered thanks for God's fair earth | H |
| Grateful that I among the murmuring rest | I |
| Was not an unappreciative guest | I |
Victoria Mary Sackville-west
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