Azrael Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFE GAHA IJI KD LMLM KFKD| The moon in the field of the keel plowed main | A |
| Was watching the growing tide | B |
| A luminous peasant was driving his wain | A |
| And he offered my soul a ride | B |
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| But I nourished a sorrow uncommonly tall | C |
| And I fixed him fast with mine eye | D |
| 'O peasant ' I sang with a dying fall | C |
| 'Go leave me to sing and die ' | - |
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| The water was weltering round my feet | E |
| As prone on the beach they lay | F |
| I chanted my death song loud and sweet | E |
| 'Kioodle ioodle iay ' | - |
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| Then I heard the swish of erecting ears | G |
| Which caught that enchanted strain | A |
| The ocean was swollen with storms of tears | H |
| That fell from the shining swain | A |
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| 'O poet ' leapt he to the soaken sand | I |
| 'That ravishing song would make | J |
| The devil a saint ' He held out his hand | I |
| And solemnly added 'Shake ' | - |
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| We shook 'I crave a victim you see ' | - |
| He said 'you came hither to die ' | - |
| The Angel of Death 't was he 't was he | K |
| And the victim he crove was I | D |
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| 'T was I Fred Emerson Brooks the bard | L |
| And he knocked me on the head | M |
| O Lord I thought it exceedingly hard | L |
| For I didn't want to be dead | M |
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| 'You'll sing no worser for that ' said he | K |
| And he drove with my soul away | F |
| O death song singers be warned by me | K |
| Kioodle ioodle iay | D |
Ambrose Bierce
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