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