The Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBBCCDDEEEFG HHIIJJKLMNO PQRDDSSTT| Up to the gates of gleaming Pearl | A |
| There came the spirit of a girl | A |
| And to the white robed Guard she said | B |
| 'Dear Angel am I truly dead | B |
| Just yonder lying on my bed | B |
| I heard them say it and they wept | C |
| And after that methinks I slept | C |
| Then when I woke I saw your face | D |
| And suddenly was in this place | D |
| It seems a pleasant place to be | E |
| Yet earth was fair enough to me | E |
| What is there here to do or see | E |
| Will I see God dear Angel say | F |
| And is He very far away ' | G |
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| The Angel said 'You are in truth | H |
| What men call dead That word to youth | H |
| Is full of terror but it means | I |
| Only a change of tasks and scenes | I |
| You have been brought to us because | J |
| Of certain ancient karmic laws | J |
| Set into motion aeons gone | K |
| By us you will be guided on | L |
| From plane to plane and sphere to sphere | M |
| Until your tasks are finished here | N |
| Then back to earth the home of man | O |
| To work again another span ' | - |
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| 'But Angel when will I see God ' | - |
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| 'After the final path is trod | P |
| After you no more long or crave | Q |
| To see or hear or own or have | R |
| Aught beside HIM Then shall His face | D |
| Reveal itself to you in space | D |
| And you shall find yourself made one | S |
| With that Great Sun behind the sun | S |
| Child go thy way inside the gate | T |
| Where many eager loved ones wait | T |
| Death is but larger life begun ' | - |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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