St. Peter And The Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DBEFGH IJK JLMNOEBPQRSPTU| Delivered out of raw continual pain | A |
| smell of darkness groans of those others | B |
| to whom he was chained | C |
| - | |
| unchained and led | D |
| past the sleepers | B |
| door after door silently opening | E |
| out | F |
| And along a long street's | G |
| majestic emptiness under the moon | H |
| - | |
| one hand on the angel's shoulder one | I |
| feeling the air before him | J |
| eyes open but fixed | K |
| - | |
| And not till he saw the angel had left him | J |
| alone and free to resume | L |
| the ecstatic dangerous wearisome roads of | M |
| what he had still to do | N |
| not till then did he recognize | O |
| this was no dream More frightening | E |
| than arrest than being chained to his warders | B |
| he could hear his own footsteps suddenly | P |
| Had the angel's feet | Q |
| made any sound He could not recall | R |
| No one had missed him no one was in pursuit | S |
| He himself must be | P |
| the key now to the next door | T |
| the next terrors of freedom and joy | U |
Denise Levertov
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