The Angelus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG DHIH JKFF DFDF LMAM NODO| Bells of the Past whose long forgotten music | A |
| Still fills the wide expanse | B |
| Tingeing the sober twilight of the Present | C |
| With color of romance | B |
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| I hear your call and see the sun descending | D |
| On rock and wave and sand | E |
| As down the coast the Mission voices blending | D |
| Girdle the heathen land | E |
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| Within the circle of your incantation | F |
| No blight nor mildew falls | G |
| Nor fierce unrest nor lust nor low ambition | F |
| Passes those airy walls | G |
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| Borne on the swell of your long waves receding | D |
| I touch the farther Past | H |
| I see the dying glow of Spanish glory | I |
| The sunset dream and last | H |
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| Before me rise the dome shaped Mission towers | J |
| The white Presidio | K |
| The swart commander in his leathern jerkin | F |
| The priest in stole of snow | F |
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| Once more I see Portala's cross uplifting | D |
| Above the setting sun | F |
| And past the headland northward slowly drifting | D |
| The freighted galleon | F |
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| O solemn bells whose consecrated masses | L |
| Recall the faith of old | M |
| O tinkling bells that lulled with twilight music | A |
| The spiritual fold | M |
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| Your voices break and falter in the darkness | N |
| Break falter and are still | O |
| And veiled and mystic like the Host descending | D |
| The sun sinks from the hill | O |
Bret Harte (francis)
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