Their Faces Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDCC EEFF CCGH IIDDCC| O Beautiful white Angels who control | A |
| The inner workings of each poet soul | A |
| Thou who hast touched my mind with tender graces | B |
| Come near to me that I may see thy faces | C |
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| Me didst thou bless before I came to earth | D |
| Me hast thou kissed and dowered at my birth | D |
| With such a wealth of sweet imaginings | C |
| That even in sleep my dreaming fancy sings | C |
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| Sometimes when seeing snow white clouds at noon | E |
| Or watching silver shadows from the moon | E |
| Within my soul has stirred a joy like fear | F |
| As if some kindred spirit lingered near | F |
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| Come closer Angels thou whose haloed wings | C |
| Do gild for me the meanest ways and things | C |
| With beauty borrowed from the Infinite | G |
| Stand forth let me behold thee in the light | H |
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| O thought supreme O death O life unknown | I |
| I shall not solve thy mystery alone | I |
| The angels who have kissed me at my birth | D |
| Shall take again my soul when done with earth | D |
| And as we soar through vast star lighted spaces | C |
| At last at last I shall behold their faces | C |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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