Fighting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CBCB DCDC EFEF GHGD IBIB CJCJ| Here is a temple strangely wrought | A |
| Within it I can see | B |
| Two spirits of a diverse thought | A |
| Contend for mastery | B |
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| One is an angel fair and bright | C |
| Adown the aisle comes he | B |
| Adown the aisle in raiment white | C |
| A creature fair to see | B |
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| The other wears an evil mien | D |
| And he hath doubtless slipt | C |
| A fearful being dark and lean | D |
| Up from the mouldy crypt | C |
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| Is that the roof that grows so black | E |
| Did some one call my name | F |
| Was it the bursting thunder crack | E |
| That filled this place with flame | F |
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| I move I wake from out my sleep | G |
| Some one hath victor been | H |
| I see two radiant pinions sweep | G |
| And I am borne between | D |
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| Beneath the clouds that under roll | I |
| An upturned face I see | B |
| A dead man's face but ah the soul | I |
| Was right well known to me | B |
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| A man's dead face Away I haste | C |
| Through regions calm and fair | J |
| Go vanquish sin and thou shall taste | C |
| The same celestial air | J |
George Macdonald
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