Rosabella - Purity Of Heart Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDECC FGFGCC HIJICC KLKLCC MNMNCC OLOLCC PQPQRR| Though with an angel's tongue | A |
| I set on fire the congregations all | B |
| 'Tis but a brazen bell that I have rung | A |
| And I to nothing fall | B |
| My theme is but an idle air | C |
| If Rosabella is not there | C |
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| Though I in thunders rave | D |
| And hurl the blaze of oratoric flowers | E |
| Others I move but fail myself to save | D |
| With my declaiming powers | E |
| I sink alas I know not where | C |
| If Rosabella is not there | C |
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| Though I point out the way | F |
| And closely circumscribe the path to heaven | G |
| And pour my melting prayer without delay | F |
| And vow my sins forgiven | G |
| I sink into the gloom despair | C |
| If Rosabella is not there | C |
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| Though I may mountains move | H |
| And make the vallies vocal with my song | I |
| I'm vain without a stream of mystic love | J |
| For all my heart is wrong | I |
| I've laid myself a cruel snare | C |
| If Rosabella is not there | C |
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| From bibliothic stores | K |
| I fly proclaiming heaven from land to land | L |
| Or cross the seas and reach their distant shores | K |
| Mid Gothic groups to stand | L |
| O let me of myself beware | C |
| If Rosabella is not there | C |
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| Our classic books must fail | M |
| And with their flowery tongues to ashes burn | N |
| And not one groat a mortal wit avail | M |
| Upon his last return | N |
| Be this the creature's faithful prayer | C |
| That Rosabella may be there | C |
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| This spotless maid was born | O |
| The babe of heaven and cannot be defiled | L |
| The soul is dead and in a state forlorn | O |
| On which she has not smiled | L |
| Vain are the virile and the fair | C |
| If Rosabella be not there | C |
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| When other pleasures tire | P |
| And mortal glories fade to glow no more | Q |
| She with the wings of truth augments her fire | P |
| And still prevails to soar | Q |
| All else must die the good and wise | R |
| But Rosabella never dies | R |
George Moses Horton
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