The Comet - October, 1858 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE CFGCHH ICCJCH KLHMNO PQHRQH SHTUBH CVCWCH XYHZA2H| Erratic Soul of some great Purpose doomed | A |
| To track the wild illimitable space | B |
| Till sure propitiation has been made | C |
| For the divine commission unperformed | C |
| What was thy crime Ahasuerus' curse | D |
| Were not more stern on earth than thine in Heaven | E |
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| Art thou the Spirit of some Angel World | C |
| For grave rebellion banished from thy peers | F |
| Compelled to watch the calm immortal stars | G |
| Circling in rapture the celestial void | C |
| While the avenger follows in thy train | H |
| To spur thee on to wretchedness eterne | H |
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| Or one of nature's wildest fantasies | I |
| From which she flies in terror so profound | C |
| And with such whirl of torment in her breast | C |
| That mighty earthquakes yearn where'er she treads | J |
| While War makes red its terrible right hand | C |
| And Famine stalks abroad all lean and wan | H |
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| To us thou art as exquisitely fair | K |
| As the ideal visions of the seer | L |
| Or gentlest fancy that e'er floated down | H |
| Imagination's bright unruffled stream | M |
| Wedding the thought that was too deep for words | N |
| To the low breathings of inspir d song | O |
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| When the stars sang together o'er the birth | P |
| Of the poor Babe at Bethlehem that lay | Q |
| In the coarse manger at the crowded Inn | H |
| Didst thou perhaps a bright exalted star | R |
| Refuse to swell the grand harmonious lay | Q |
| Jealous as Herod of the birth divine | H |
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| Or when the crown of thorns on Calvary | S |
| Pierced the Redeemer's brow didst thou disdain | H |
| To weep when all the planetary worlds | T |
| Were blinded by the fulness of their tears | U |
| E'en to the flaming sun that hid his face | B |
| At the loud cry Lama Sabachthani | H |
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| No rest No rest the very damned have that | C |
| In the dark councils of remotest Hell | V |
| Where the dread scheme was perfected that sealed | C |
| Thy disobedience and accruing doom | W |
| Like Adam's sons hast thou too forfeited | C |
| The blest repose that never pillowed Sin | H |
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| No none can tell thy fate thou wandering Sphinx | X |
| Pale Science searching by the midnight lamp | Y |
| Through the vexed mazes of the human brain | H |
| Still fails to read the secret of its soul | Z |
| As the superb enigma flashes by | A2 |
| A loosed Prometheus burning with disdain | H |
Charles Sangster
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