The Human Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDCEC EFGHIH JKIKLK BMNMNM B BOOOBO PQAQLQ LNINPN NRERMR SNNNEN| The Temple in Darkness | A |
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| Darkness broods upon the temple | B |
| Glooms along the lonely aisles | C |
| Fills up all the orient window | D |
| Whence like little children s wiles | C |
| Shadows purple azure golden | E |
| Broke upon the floor in smiles | C |
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| From the great heart of the organ | E |
| Bursts no voice of chant or psalm | F |
| All the air by music pulses | G |
| Stirred no more is deathly calm | H |
| And no precious incense rising | I |
| Falls like good men s prayer in balm | H |
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| Not a sound of living footstep | J |
| Echoes on the marble floor | K |
| Not a sigh of stranger passing | I |
| Pierces through the clos d door | K |
| Quenched the light upon the altar | L |
| Where the priest stood none stands more | K |
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| Lord why hast Thou left Thy temple | B |
| Scorned of man disowned by Thee | M |
| Rather let Thy right hand crush it | N |
| None its desolation see | M |
| List He who the temple builded | N |
| Doth His will there Let it be | M |
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| A Light in the Temple | B |
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| Lo a light within the temple | B |
| Whence it cometh no man knows | O |
| Barred the doors the night black windows | O |
| Stand apart in solemn rows | O |
| All without seems gloom eternal | B |
| Yet the glimmer comes and goes | O |
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| As if silent footed angels | P |
| Through the dim aisles wandered fair | Q |
| Only traced amid the darkness | A |
| By the glory in their hair | Q |
| Till at the forsaken altar | L |
| They all met and praised God there | Q |
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| Now the light grows fuller clearer | L |
| Hark the organ gins to sound | N |
| Faint like broken spirit crying | I |
| Unto Heaven from the ground | N |
| While the chorus of the angels | P |
| Mingles everywhere around | N |
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| See the altar shines all radiant | N |
| Though no mortal priest there stands | R |
| And no earthly congregation | E |
| Worships with uplifted hands | R |
| Yet they gather slow and saintly | M |
| In innumerable bands | R |
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| And the chant celestial rises | S |
| Where the human prayers have ceased | N |
| No tear sacrifice is offered | N |
| For all anguish is appeased | N |
| Through its night of desolation | E |
| To His temple comes the Priest | N |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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