Faithful In Vanity-fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCD CCEFC CCCCC CCBBC CCBB A CCCC BBG BBHH CCBB CCBB IICC| I | A |
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| THE great human whirlpool 't is seething and seething | B |
| On No time for shrieking out scarcely for breathing | B |
| All toiling and moiling some feebler some bolder | C |
| But each sees a fiend face grim over his shoulder | C |
| Thus merrily live they in Vanity fair | D |
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| The great human caldron it boils ever higher | C |
| Some drowning some sinking while some stealing nigher | C |
| Athirst come and lean o'er its outermost verges | E |
| Or touch as a child's feet touch timorous the surges | F |
| One plunge lo more souls swamped in Vanity fair | C |
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| Let's live while we live for to morrow all's over | C |
| Drink deep drunkard bold and kiss close maddened lover | C |
| Smile hypocrite smile it is no such hard labor | C |
| While each stealthy hand stabs the heart of his neighbor | C |
| Faugh Fear not we've no hearts in Vanity fair | C |
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| The mad crowd divides and then soon closes after | C |
| Afar towers the pyre Through the shouting and laughter | C |
| 'What new sport is this ' gasps a reveller half turning | B |
| 'One Faithful meek fool who is led to the burning | B |
| He cumbered us sorely in Vanity fair | C |
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| 'A dreamer who held every man for a brother | C |
| A coward who smit on one cheek gave the other | C |
| A fool whose blind soul took as truth all our lying | B |
| Too simple to live so best fitted for dying | B |
| Sure such are best swept out of Vanity fair ' | - |
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| II | A |
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| SILENCE though the flames arise and quiver | C |
| Silence though the crowd howls on forever | C |
| Silence Through this fiery purgatory | C |
| God is leading up a soul to glory | C |
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| See the white lips with no moans are trembling | B |
| Hate of foes or plaint of friends' dissembling | B |
| If sighs come his patient prayers outlive them | G |
| 'Lord these know not what they do Forgive them ' | - |
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| Thirstier still the roaring flames are glowing | B |
| Fainter in his ear the laughter growing | B |
| Brief will last the fierce and fiery trial | H |
| Angel welcomes drown the earth denial | H |
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| Now the amorous death fires gleaming ruddy | C |
| Clasp him close Down drops the quivering body | C |
| While through harmless flames ecstatic flying | B |
| Shoots the beauteous soul This this is dying | B |
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| Lo the opening sky with splendor rifted | C |
| Lo the palm branch for his hands uplifted | C |
| Lo the immortal chariot cloud descending | B |
| And its legioned angels close attending | B |
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| Let his poor dust mingle with the embers | I |
| While the crowds sweep on and none remembers | I |
| Saints unnumbered through the Infinite Glory | C |
| Praising God recount the martyr's story | C |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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