The Man To The Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HDHD IJIJ KLKL| I have wept a million tears | A |
| Pure and proud one where are thine | B |
| What the gain though all thy years | C |
| In unbroken beauty shine | B |
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| All your beauty cannot win | D |
| Truth we learn in pain and sighs | E |
| You can never enter in | D |
| To the circle of the wise | E |
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| They are but the slaves of light | F |
| Who have never known the gloom | G |
| And between the dark and bright | F |
| Willed in freedom their own doom | G |
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| Think not in your pureness there | H |
| That our pain but follows sin | D |
| There are fires for those who dare | H |
| Seek the throne of might to win | D |
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| Pure one from your pride refrain | I |
| Dark and lost amid the strife | J |
| I am myriad years of pain | I |
| Nearer to the fount of life | J |
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| When defiance fierce is thrown | K |
| At the God to whom you bow | L |
| Rest the lips of the Unknown | K |
| Tenderest upon my brow | L |
George William Russell
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