Saul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DDEEFFGGHH DDDDIIJJDDKLDDM| Thou whose spell can raise the dead | A |
| Bid the prophet's form appear | B |
| 'Samuel raise thy buried head | A |
| King behold the phantom seer ' | C |
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| Earth yawn'd he stood the centre of a cloud | D |
| Light changed its hue retiring from his shroud | D |
| Death stood all glassy in his fixed eye | E |
| His hand was wither'd and his veins were dry | E |
| His foot in bony whiteness glitter'd there | F |
| Shrunken and sinewless and ghastly bare | F |
| From lips that moved not and unbreathing frame | G |
| Like cavern'd winds the hollow acccents came | G |
| Saul saw and fell to earth as falls the oak | H |
| At once and blasted by the thunderstroke | H |
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| 'Why is my sleep disquieted | D |
| Who is he that calls the dead | D |
| Is it thou O King Behold | D |
| Bloodless are these limbs and cold | D |
| Such are mine and such shall be | I |
| Thine to morrow when with me | I |
| Ere the coming day is done | J |
| Such shalt thou be such thy son | J |
| Fare thee well bur for a day | D |
| Then we mix our mouldering clay | D |
| Thou thy race lie pale and low | K |
| Pierced by shafts of many a bow | L |
| And the falchion by thy side | D |
| To thy heart thy hand shall guide | D |
| Crownless breathless headless fall | M |
| Son and sire the house of Saul ' | - |
George Gordon Byron
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