Vision Of Belshazzar Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDE BFBFGFGH IJIJKLK MNMNOPOP FQFQRSRS TUTUVAV| The King was on his throne | A |
| The Satraps throng'd the hall | B |
| A thousand bright lamps shone | A |
| O'er that high festival | C |
| A thousand cups of gold | D |
| In Judah deem'd divine | E |
| Jehovah's vessels hold | D |
| The godless Heathen's wine | E |
| - | |
| In that same hour and hall | B |
| The fingers of a hand | F |
| Came forth against the wall | B |
| And wrote as if on sand | F |
| The fingers of a man | G |
| A solitary hand | F |
| Along the letters ran | G |
| And traced them like a wand | H |
| - | |
| The monarch saw and shook | I |
| And bade no more rejoice | J |
| All bloodless wax'd his look | I |
| And tremulous his voice | J |
| 'Let the men of lore appear | K |
| The wisest of the earth | L |
| And expound the words of fear | K |
| Which mar our royal mirth ' | - |
| - | |
| Chaldea's seers are good | M |
| But here they have no skill | N |
| And the unknown letters stood | M |
| Untold and awful still | N |
| And Babel's men of age | O |
| Are wise and deep in lore | P |
| But now they were not sage | O |
| They saw but knew no more | P |
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| A captive in the land | F |
| A stranger and a youth | Q |
| He heard the king's command | F |
| He saw that writing's truth | Q |
| The lamps around were bright | R |
| The prophecy in view | S |
| He read it on that night | R |
| The morrow proved it true | S |
| - | |
| 'Belshazzar's grave is made | T |
| His kingdom pass'd away | U |
| He in the balance weigh'd | T |
| Is light and worthless clay | U |
| The shroud his robe of state | V |
| His canopy the stone | A |
| The Mede is at his gate | V |
| The Persian on his throne ' | - |
George Gordon Byron
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