The Feast Of The Passions Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE DDCDDDGD AHIHCADA ABGBAEFE| It wouldn't be fair to Belshazzar | A |
| When speaking of madness and mirth | B |
| To draw from his revel a moral | C |
| For conscienceless sin in the earth | B |
| For 'tis certain the King of Chaldea | D |
| Took note of the hand on the wall | E |
| But here at the Feast of the Passions | F |
| We never take heed at all | E |
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| The same gods grin at the banquet | D |
| The idols of silver and gold | D |
| While we drink from the cups of the Temple | C |
| As they did in the days of old | D |
| But the finger of God is unheeded | D |
| His warning misunderstood | D |
| As Mene is written in lightning | G |
| And Tekel inscribed in blood | D |
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| No lesson of Nebuchadnezzar | A |
| Turned out with his swinish kin | H |
| Creeps in like a baneful vision | I |
| At the Babylonian din | H |
| We have stilled the tongue of our Daniel | C |
| Lest sudden he rise and cry | A |
| Behold thy kingdom is numbered | D |
| This night shall Belshazzar die | A |
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| So it wouldn't be just to Belshazzar | A |
| When speaking of madness and mirth | B |
| To hold up his feast as a warning | G |
| To conscienceless sin in the earth | B |
| For 'tis certain the King of Chaldea | A |
| Took note of the hand on the wall | E |
| But here at the Feast of the Passions | F |
| We never take heed at all | E |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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