Michael The Archangel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBDEBDBEF D GHHGGGGGIGIGBB| A Statuette | A |
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| MY white archangel with thy steadfast eyes | B |
| Beholding all this empty ghost filled room | C |
| Thy clasped hands resting on the sword of doom | C |
| Thy firm close lips not made for human sighs | B |
| Or smiles or kisses sweet or bitter cries | B |
| But for divine exhorting holy song | D |
| And righteous counsel bold from seraph tongue | E |
| Beautiful angel strong as thou art wise | B |
| Would that the sight of thee made wise and strong | D |
| Would that this sheath d sword of thine which lies | B |
| Stonily idle could gleam out among | E |
| The spiritual hosts of enemies | F |
| That tempting shriek 'Requite thou wrong with wrong ' | - |
| Lama Sabachthani How long how long | D |
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| II | - |
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| MICHAEL the leader of the hosts of God | G |
| Who warred with Satan for the body of him | H |
| Whom living God had loved If cherubim | H |
| With cherubim contended for one clod | G |
| Of human dust for forty years that trod | G |
| The gloomy desert of Heaven's chastisement | G |
| Are there not ministering angels sent | G |
| To battle with the devils that roam abroad | G |
| Clutching our living souls 'The living still | I |
| The living they shall praise Thee ' Let some great | G |
| Invisible spirit enter in and fill | I |
| The howling chambers of hearts desolate | G |
| With looks like thine O Michael strong and wise | B |
| My white archangel with the steadfast eyes | B |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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