A Carrier Song Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHGHIJKJ A LGMGHGFGHIJKJ A NONOPFNFHINKN Q PFRFSFTFHINKN Q UNVNQQWQQINKN Q GXYXZCNCQINKN Q XCQCFA2CA2QINKNI | A |
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Since you have waned from us | B |
Fairest of women | C |
I am a darkened cage | D |
Song cannot hymn in | E |
My songs have followed you | F |
Like birds the summer | G |
Ah bring them back to me | H |
Swiftly dear comer | G |
Seraphim | H |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | J |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | J |
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II | A |
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Where wings to rustle use | L |
But this poor tarrier | G |
Searching my spirit's eaves | M |
Find I for carrier | G |
Ah bring them back to me | H |
Swiftly sweet comer | G |
Swift swift and bring with you | F |
Song's Indian summer | G |
Seraphim | H |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | J |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | J |
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III | A |
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Whereso your angel is | N |
My angel goeth | O |
I am left guardianless | N |
Paradise knoweth | O |
I have no Heaven left | P |
To weep my wrongs to | F |
Heaven when you went from us | N |
Went with my songs too | F |
Seraphim | H |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | N |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | N |
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IV | Q |
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I have no angels left | P |
Now Sweet to pray to | F |
Where you have made your shrine | R |
They are away to | F |
They have struck Heaven's tent | S |
And gone to cover you | F |
Whereso you keep your state | T |
Heaven is pitched over you | F |
Seraphim | H |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | N |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | N |
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V | Q |
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She that is Heaven's Queen | U |
Her title borrows | N |
For that she pitiful | V |
Beareth our sorrows | N |
So thou Regina mi | Q |
Spes infirmorum | Q |
With all our grieving crowned | W |
Mater dolorum | Q |
Seraphim | Q |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | N |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | N |
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VI | Q |
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Yet envious coveter | G |
Of other's grieving | X |
This lonely longing yet | Y |
'Scapeth your reaving | X |
Cruel to take from a | Z |
Sinner his Heaven | C |
Think you with contrite smiles | N |
To be forgiven | C |
Seraphim | Q |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | N |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | N |
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VII | Q |
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Penitent give me back | X |
Angels and Heaven | C |
Render your stolen self | Q |
And be forgiven | C |
How frontier Heaven from you | F |
For my soul prays Sweet | A2 |
Still to your face in Heaven | C |
Heaven in your face Sweet | A2 |
Seraphim | Q |
Her to hymn | I |
Might leave their portals | N |
And at my feet learn | K |
The harping of mortals | N |
Francis Thompson
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