The Comet - October, 1858 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDE CFGCHH ICCJCH KLHMNO PQHRQH SHTUBH CVCWCH XYHZA2HErratic 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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