Pride In Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDDDC EFEFGGGF HIJKBBLI MCMCNNNC OPOPAAAP| On heaven's ethereal plain | A |
| Where hostile rage ambition first begun | B |
| When the arch rebel strove himself to reign | A |
| And take Jehovah's throne | C |
| Swift to the fight the seraphim | D |
| On floods of pride were seen to swim | D |
| And bold defy the power supreme | D |
| And thus their God disown | C |
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| High on a dome of state | E |
| From azure fields he cast his daring eye | F |
| Licentious trains his magazines await | E |
| At whose command they fly | F |
| The gloom excludes celestial charms | G |
| When all the angels rush to arms | G |
| Heaven shakes beneath the vast alarms | G |
| And earth begins to sigh | F |
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| Eternal mountains move | H |
| And seven fold thunders rock the hills below | I |
| While starry throngs desert the worlds above | J |
| Beneath Jehovah's brow | K |
| O Lucifer thou morning son | B |
| To glut thy pride what hast thou done | B |
| Sing O ye heavens the plague is gone | L |
| And weep thou earth for woe | I |
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| Creation felt the fall | M |
| And trembling nature heav'd a dismal groan | C |
| For that rebellion brought her into thrall | M |
| She must her fate bemoan | C |
| See angels fall no more to rise | N |
| And feed the worm that never dies | N |
| No ear of grace can hear their cries | N |
| And hoarse lamenting tone | C |
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| Weak nature lay exposed | O |
| And felt the wound in pleasing hate conceal'd | P |
| And void of fear the secret charm disclosed | O |
| Which ev'ry ill reveal'd | P |
| The venom struck through ev'ry vein | A |
| And every creature felt the pain | A |
| But undefiled a lamb was slain | A |
| By which the wound was heal'd | P |
George Moses Horton
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