A Holocaust Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CDCEFEFEGHGHIEIEJFJF FFFFKK| 'No man ever attained supreme knowledge unless his heart had been | A |
| torn up by the roots ' | B |
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| When I presage the time shall come yea now | C |
| Perchance is come when you shall fail from me | D |
| Because the mighty spirit to whom you vow | C |
| Faith of kin genius unrebukably | E |
| Scourges my sloth and from your side dismissed | F |
| Henceforth this sad and most most lonely soul | E |
| Must marching fatally through pain and mist | F |
| The God bid levy of its powers enrol | E |
| When I presage that none shall hear the voice | G |
| From the great Mount that clangs my ordained advance | H |
| That sullen envy bade the churlish choice | G |
| Yourself shall say and turn your altered glance | H |
| O God Thou knowest if this heart of flesh | I |
| Quivers like broken entrails when the wheel | E |
| Rolleth some dog in middle street or fresh | I |
| Fruit when ye tear it bleeding from the peel | E |
| If my soul cries the uncomprehended cry | J |
| When the red agony oozed on Olivet | F |
| Yet not for this a caitiff falter I | J |
| Beloved whom I must lose nor thence regret | F |
| The doubly vouched and twin allegiance owed | F |
| To you in Heaven and Heaven in you Lady | F |
| How could you hope loose dealer with my God | F |
| That I should keep for you my fealty | F |
| For still 'tis thus because I am so true | K |
| My Fair to Heaven I am so true to you | K |
Francis Thompson
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