The Idolators Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DED FF GGG HII JJJ KKK LLL MMM NOO PPP QRR AAA CCC SS TTU VVV AA LLL BB WW XXX PP| The veil was rent and mundane Time merged in Eternity | A |
| And I beheld the End of Things I heard the Last Decree | A |
| Pronounced on all the World that Is and Was and Is to Be | A |
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| Rank upon rank before the Throne the Nations were arrayed | B |
| And every man since Time began by his own act was weighed | B |
| Till to the Right the diffident Elected stood dismayed | B |
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| For here the lowly Lazarus and all his kind and ken | C |
| Repentant knave and serf and slave and humble beggar men | C |
| In wonder looked from Damned to Throne then on the Damned again | C |
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| Gaunt towsled creatures of the streets still trembled half in fear | D |
| Weak women who had 'sinned' for love and common folk were here | E |
| Facing the Lost yet doubting still that the Decree was clear | D |
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| For on the Left amid the Damned a thousand million strong | F |
| There stood a band of 'righteous' folk a very 'genteel' throng | F |
| All much surprised and scandalised and scenting 'something wrong ' | - |
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| Here reigned Respectability 'mid virgins sour and chaste | G |
| Prim haughty dames whose worldly aims had been in perfect taste | G |
| Shorn of their pride stood side by side with sweaters leaden faced | G |
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| Strict folk who ne'er had sinned without due reck'ning of the cost | H |
| Sniffed disapproval and declared the function was a frost | I |
| And vowed the angel ushers erred in marking them as Lost | I |
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| Strange men there were of ev'ry age since Man did first increase | J |
| From Adam on to Babylon from Persia to Greece | J |
| From Greece and Rome to England on till Time was bidden cease | J |
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| Courtiers were there and prince and peer ay even brewere knights | K |
| Preachers and parsons Pharisees Gentiles and Israelites | K |
| Pharaohs and Caesars Emperors and smug suburbanites | K |
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| Yea every canting hypocrite since early Eocene | L |
| In skin and silk and suit of mail and broadcloth stood serene | L |
| Full sure his plight would be set right when the 'mistake' was seen | L |
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| And as they gazed shocked and amazed upon the chosen side | M |
| On folk ill clad in rags that had half clothed them when they died | M |
| Lord God they're not respectable Nay have a care ' they cried | M |
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| Then stepped there forth consumed with wrath an unctuous alderman | N |
| And standing out before the Throne he pompously began | O |
| In life he built a church and many 'charities' he ran | O |
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| 'Most High the Heavenly Court and Friends I do not wish to blame | P |
| Where blame is not deserved but I protest it is a shame | P |
| That such a state of things exists and I regret I came | P |
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| 'I I a pillar of the Church a famed philanthropist | Q |
| Who on a Sabbath went to chapel thrice and never missed | R |
| I rich respectable am down on the 'Rejected' list | R |
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| 'It is absurd upon my word when even Royalty | A |
| Is bid make way for yon array of rags and misery | A |
| Ay even vice to my surprise in their soiled ranks I see | A |
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| ''Tis past a jest and I protest it is an insult when | C |
| That common motley crew of low ill bred unlettered men | C |
| Is set on high while such as I are herded in this pen | C |
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| And as he closed the huddled rows of Damned caught up the cry | S |
| From many million 'genteel' throats a shout went to the sky | S |
| 'Lord God they're not respectable Beware beware Most High ' | - |
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| Close on their shout The Voice rang out and took them like a flood | T |
| Till king and khan and alderman and prince of royal blood | T |
| And chief and lord and preacher cowered and trembled where they stood | U |
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| 'Ye knew my life ye knew my Law ye mocked with hollow praise | V |
| Ye knelt to me in blasphemy once in the Seven Days | V |
| Then raised an idol in my place and went your idol's ways | V |
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| 'To this ye turned for this ye spurned the Man of Galilee | A |
| And in your hearts ye sacrificed to other gods than me | A |
| Nor ceased to crawl to it ye call 'Respectability ' | - |
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| 'And when its Law was not my Law say whither did ye lean | L |
| Did ye heed my Word or seek to aid my humble folk and mean | L |
| Ye prayed unto a myth and scorned the lowly Nazarene | L |
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| 'E'en as ye judged my People here so are ye judged and weighed | B |
| But the humble mates of Christ the Carpenter today are paid | B |
| My folk they be I know not ye Go call your god to aid ' | - |
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| And lo adown the shining stairs each with a flaming sword | W |
| Avenging hosts of angels came yet howled the stricken horde | W |
| 'Lord God they're not respectable Be warned in time O Lord ' | - |
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| Then yawned agape and greedily a horrid fiery cleft | X |
| And prince and king and alderman of pomp and pride bereft | X |
| Went pressed like herded cattle till no trace of gloom was left | X |
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| Yet as they fell the gates of Hell gave back a cry that came | P |
| Now far and faint a doleful plaint all muffled through the flame | P |
| 'Lord God they're not respectable O King of Kings for shame ' | - |
Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis
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