The Angel And The Girl Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABC DCBEFGDHIJJJ KLKLMMN NOJO| The angel and the girl are met | A |
| Earth was the only meeting place | B |
| For the embodied never yet | A |
| Travelled beyond the shore of space | B |
| The eternal spirits in freedom go | C |
| - | |
| See they have come together see | D |
| While the destroying minutes flow | C |
| Each reflects the other's face | B |
| Till heaven in hers and earth in his | E |
| Shine steady there He's come to her | F |
| From far beyond the farthest star | G |
| Feathered through time Immediacy | D |
| Of strangest strangeness is the bliss | H |
| That from their limbs all movement takes | I |
| Yet the increasing rapture brings | J |
| So great a wonder that it makess | J |
| Each feather tremble on his wings | J |
| - | |
| Outside the window footsteps fall | K |
| Into the ordinary day | L |
| And with the sun along the wall | K |
| Pursue their unreturning way | L |
| Sound's perpetual roundabout | M |
| Rolls its numbered octaves out | M |
| And hoarsely grinds its battered tune | N |
| - | |
| But through the endless afternoon | N |
| These neither speak nor movement make | O |
| But stare into their deepening trance | J |
| As if their grace would never break | O |
Edwin Muir
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