A Judgment In Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEB FFGFHF FIJKK LJFJJ FFCF FFMFFF NOPQO FRRQR NSMSFS FFTFFF UFNFF FRNRC TUNUVUWU NXYNX ZRR NA2FA2H RRR N NB2CB2 NNN NMC2MN D2NE2RAthwart the sod which is treading for God the poet paced with his | A |
splendid eyes | B |
Paradise verdure he stately passes to win to the Father of | C |
Paradise | D |
Through the conscious and palpitant grasses of inter tangled | E |
relucent dyes | B |
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The angels a play on its fields of Summer their wild wings | F |
rustled his guides' cymars | F |
Looked up from disport at the passing comer as they pelted each | G |
other with handfuls of stars | F |
And the warden spirits with startled feet rose hand on sword by | H |
their tethered cars | F |
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With plumes night tinctured englobed and cinctured of Saints his | F |
guided steps held on | I |
To where on the far crystelline pale of that transtellar Heaven | J |
there shone | K |
The immutable crocean dawn effusing from the Father's Throne | K |
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Through the reverberant Eden ways the bruit of his great advent | L |
driven | J |
Back from the fulgent justle and press with mighty echoing so was | F |
given | J |
As when the surly thunder smites upon the clanged gates of Heaven | J |
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Over the bickering gonfalons far ranged as for Tartarean wars | F |
Went a waver of ribbed fire as night seas on phosphoric bars | F |
Like a flame plumed fan shake slowly out their ridgy reach of | C |
crumbling stars | F |
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At length to where on His fretted Throne sat in the heart of His | F |
aged dominions | F |
The great Triune and Mary nigh lit round with spears of their | M |
hauberked minions | F |
The poet drew in the thunderous blue involved dread of those | F |
mounted pinions | F |
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As in a secret and tenebrous cloud the watcher from the disquiet | N |
earth | O |
At momentary intervals beholds from its ragged rifts break forth | P |
The flash of a golden perturbation the travelling threat of a | Q |
witched birth | O |
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Till heavily parts a sinister chasm a grisly jaw whose verges | F |
soon | R |
Slowly and ominously filled by the on coming plenilune | R |
Supportlessly congest with fire and suddenly spit forth the | Q |
moon | R |
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With beauty not terror through tangled error of night dipt | N |
plumes so burned their charge | S |
Swayed and parted the globing clusters so disclosed from their | M |
kindling marge | S |
Roseal chapleted splendent vestured the singer there where God's | F |
light lay large | S |
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Hu hu a wonder a wonder see clasping the singer's glories | F |
clings | F |
A dingy creature even to laughter cloaked and clad in patchwork | T |
things | F |
Shrinking close from the unused glows of the seraphs' | F |
versicoloured wings | F |
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A rhymer rhyming a futile rhyme he had crept for convoy through | U |
Eden ways | F |
Into the shade of the poet's glory darkened under his prevalent | N |
rays | F |
Fearfully hoping a distant welcome as a poor kinsman of his lays | F |
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The angels laughed with a lovely scorning 'Who has done this | F |
sorry deed in | R |
The garden of our Father God 'mid his blossoms to sow this weed | N |
in | R |
Never our fingers knew this stuff not so fashion the looms of | C |
Eden ' | - |
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The singer bowed his brow majestic searching that patchwork | T |
through and through | U |
Feeling God's lucent gazes traverse his singing stoling and spirit | N |
too | U |
The hallowed harpers were fain to frown on the strange thing come | V |
'mid their sacred crew | U |
Only the singer that was earth his fellow earth and his own self | W |
knew | U |
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But the poet rent off robe and wreath so as a sloughing serpent | N |
doth | X |
Laid them at the rhymer's feet shed down wreath and raiment both | Y |
Stood in a dim and shamed stole like the tattered wing of a musty | N |
moth | X |
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'Thou gav'st the weed and wreath of song the weed and wreath are | Z |
solely Thine | R |
And this dishonest vesture is the only vesture that is mine | R |
The life I textured Thou the song MY handicraft is not divine ' | - |
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He wrested o'er the rhymer's head that garmenting which wrought | N |
him wrong | A2 |
A flickering tissue argentine down dripped its shivering silvers | F |
long | A2 |
'Better thou wov'st thy woof of life than thou didst weave thy | H |
woof of song ' | - |
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Never a chief in Saintdom was but turned him from the Poet then | R |
Never an eye looked mild on him 'mid all the angel myriads ten | R |
Save sinless Mary and sinful Mary the Mary titled Magdalen | R |
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'Turn yon robe ' spake Magdalen 'of torn bright song and see and | N |
feel ' | - |
They turned the raiment saw and felt what their turning did | N |
reveal | B2 |
All the inner surface piled with bloodied hairs like hairs of | C |
steel | B2 |
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'Take I pray yon chaplet up thrown down ruddied from his head ' | - |
They took the roseal chaplet up and they stood astonished | N |
Every leaf between their fingers as they bruised it burst and | N |
bled | N |
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'See his torn flesh through those rents see the punctures round | N |
his hair | M |
As if the chaplet flowers had driven deep roots in to nourish | C2 |
there | M |
Lord who gav'st him robe and wreath WHAT was this Thou gav'st | N |
for wear ' | - |
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'Fetch forth the Paradisal garb ' spake the Father sweet and low | D2 |
Drew them both by the frightened hand where Mary's throne made | N |
irised bow | E2 |
'Take Princess Mary of thy good grace two spirits greater than | R |
they know ' | - |
Francis Thompson
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