Angel Or Demon Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD AEAEFG HIHIAA AAAAJJ KEKEAA LMNMAA OAOAPPYou call me an angel of love and of light | A |
A being of goodness and heavenly fire | B |
Sent out from God s kingdom to guide you aright | A |
In paths where your spirits may mount and aspire | C |
You say that I glow like a star on its course | D |
Like a ray from the alter a spark from the source | D |
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Now list to my answer let all the world hear it | A |
I speak unafraid what I know to be true | E |
A pure faithful love is the creative spirit | A |
Which makes women angels I live in but you | E |
We are bound soul to soul by life s holiest laws | F |
If I am an angel why you are the cause | G |
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As my ship skims the sea I look up from the deck | H |
Fair firm at the wheel shines Love s beautiful form | I |
And shall I curse the barque that last night went to wreck | H |
By the Pilot abandoned to darkness and storm | I |
My craft is no stauncher she too had been lost | A |
Had the wheelman deserted or slept at his post | A |
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I laid down the wealth of my soul at your feet | A |
Some woman does this for some man every day | A |
No desperate creature who walks in the street | A |
Has a wickeder heart that I might have I say | A |
Had you wantonly misused the treasures you woon | J |
As so many men with heart riches have done | J |
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This flame from God s altar this holy love flame | K |
That burns like sweet incense for ever for you | E |
Might now be a wild conflagration of shame | K |
Had you tortured my heart or been base or untrue | E |
For angels and devils are cast in one mould | A |
Till love guides them upward or downward I hold | A |
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I tell you the women who make fervent wives | L |
And sweet tender mothers had Fate been less fair | M |
Are the women who might have abandoned their lives | N |
To the madness that springs from and ends in despair | M |
As the fire on the hearth which sheds brightness around | A |
Neglected may level the walls to the ground | A |
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The world makes grave errors in judging these things | O |
Great good and great evil are born in one breast | A |
Love horns us and hoofs us or gives us our wings | O |
And the best could be worst as the worst could be best | A |
You must thank your own worth for what I grew to be | P |
For the demon lurked under the angel in me | P |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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