The Day Of The Lord Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDDA EFCFGGA HIJKLLA CMEKNNA OP| The Day of the Lord is at hand at hand | A |
| Its storms roll up the sky | B |
| The nations sleep starving on heaps of gold | C |
| All dreamers toss and sigh | B |
| The night is darkest before the morn | D |
| When the pain is sorest the child is born | D |
| And the Day of the Lord at hand | A |
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| Gather you gather you angels of God | E |
| Freedom and Mercy and Truth | F |
| Come for the Earth is grown coward and old | C |
| Come down and renew us her youth | F |
| Wisdom Self Sacrifice Daring and Love | G |
| Haste to the battle field stoop from above | G |
| To the Day of the Lord at hand | A |
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| Gather you gather you hounds of hell | H |
| Famine and Plague and War | I |
| Idleness Bigotry Cant and Misrule | J |
| Gather and fall in the snare | K |
| Hireling and Mammonite Bigot and Knave | L |
| Crawl to the battle field sneak to your grave | L |
| In the Day of the Lord at hand | A |
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| Who would sit down and sigh for a lost age of gold | C |
| While the Lord of all ages is here | M |
| True hearts will leap up at the trumpet of God | E |
| And those who can suffer can dare | K |
| Each old age of gold was an iron age too | N |
| And the meekest of saints may find stern work to do | N |
| In the Day of the Lord at hand | A |
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| On the Torridge Devonshire | O |
| September | P |
Charles Kingsley
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