Zoroaster Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDEFGEE A HIIHJKKLL A BCCDEMNEE| I | A |
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| The light of a new day was on his brow | B |
| The faith of a great dawn was on his tongue | C |
| Out of the dark he raised his voice and sung | C |
| The high Messiah who should overthrow | D |
| The gods that Superstition crowned with might | E |
| And set above the world the coming Christ | F |
| Whose unshed blood should be the holy tryst | G |
| 'Twixt man and his lost Eden washing white | E |
| From his rebellious soul the serpent's blight | E |
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| II | A |
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| The fire that on the Magi's altars glowed | H |
| Spake to his soul in symbols and expressed | I |
| The immortal purity that without rest | I |
| Strives with the mortal grossness whose abode | H |
| Is in the heart Their symboled fire showed One | J |
| Whose spirit on the altar of the world | K |
| Burns ceaselessly where if all vice be hurled | K |
| It shall be purged with fire that shall atone | L |
| Christ's love the flame man's sin th' alchemic stone | L |
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| III | A |
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| The light of a new day was on his brow | B |
| The faith of a great dawn was on his tongue | C |
| Above the old Chaldean myths he sung | C |
| The message of the peace that men should know | D |
| Through God's own Son Out of the hopeless night | E |
| He saw the star of Bethlehem arise | M |
| And o'er the wasted gates of Paradise | N |
| Beheld it mount and heard to hail its light | E |
| The everlasting groan of hell's despite | E |
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
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