Angel Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A ABBAACCADDEFFE A GAAGGHHGIJEKKE| I | A |
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| I SHALL not paint them God them sees and I | A |
| No other can nor need They have no form | B |
| I may not close with human kisses warm | B |
| Their eyes which shine afar or from on high | A |
| But never will shine nearer till I die | A |
| How long how long See I am growing old | C |
| I have quite ceased to note in my hair's fold | C |
| The silver threads that there in ambush lie | A |
| Some angel faces bent from heaven would pine | D |
| To trace the sharp lines graven upon mine | D |
| What matter in the wrinkles ploughed by care | E |
| Let age tread after sowing immortal seeds | F |
| All this life's harvest yielded wheat or weeds | F |
| Is reaped methinks at my little field lies bare | E |
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| II | A |
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| BUT in the night time 'twixt it and the stars | G |
| The angel faces still come glimmering by | A |
| No death pale shadow no averted eye | A |
| Marking the inevitable doom that bars | G |
| Me from them Not a cloud their aspect mars | G |
| And my sick spirit walks with them hand in hand | H |
| By the cool waters of a pleasant land | H |
| Sings with them o'er again without its jars | G |
| The psalm of life that ceased as one by one | I |
| Their voices dropping off left mine alone | J |
| With dull monotonous wail to grieve the air | E |
| O solitary love that art so strong | K |
| I think God will have pity on thee erelong | K |
| And take thee where thou'lt find those angel faces fair | E |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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