The Asthmatic Man To The Satan That Binds Him Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAA CDCDAA EFEFAA GAGAAA AHAHII JAJAKK ALALCC| Satan avaunt | A |
| Nay take thine hour | B |
| Thou canst not daunt | A |
| Thou hast no power | B |
| Be welcome to thy nest | A |
| Though it be in my breast | A |
| - | |
| Burrow amain | C |
| Dig like a mole | D |
| Fill every vein | C |
| With half burnt coal | D |
| Puff the keen dust about | A |
| And all to choke me out | A |
| - | |
| Fill music's ways | E |
| With creaking cries | F |
| That no loud praise | E |
| May climb the skies | F |
| And on my labouring chest | A |
| Lay mountains of unrest | A |
| - | |
| My slumber steep | G |
| In dreams of haste | A |
| That only sleep | G |
| No rest I taste | A |
| With stiflings rimes of rote | A |
| And fingers on my throat | A |
| - | |
| Satan thy might | A |
| I do defy | H |
| Live core of night | A |
| I patient lie | H |
| A wind comes up the gray | I |
| Will blow thee clean away | I |
| - | |
| Christ's angel Death | J |
| All radiant white | A |
| With one cold breath | J |
| Will scare thee quite | A |
| And give my lungs an air | K |
| As fresh as answered prayer | K |
| - | |
| So Satan do | A |
| Thy worst with me | L |
| Until the True | A |
| Shall set me free | L |
| And end what he began | C |
| By making me a man | C |
George Macdonald
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