To St. Micheal In Time Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DEFEDDDD AAABGGGH IEJEGKAK AEALAAAL MGGGDNAN ABOODH| Michael Michael Michael of the Morning | A |
| Michael of the Army of the Lord | B |
| Stiffen thou the hand upon the still sword Michael | C |
| Folded and shut upon the sheathed sword Michael | C |
| Under the fullness of the white robes falling | A |
| Gird us with the secret of the sword | B |
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| When the world cracked because of a sneer in heaven | D |
| Leaving out for all time a scar upon the sky | E |
| Thou didst rise up against the Horror in the highest | F |
| Dragging down the highest that looked down on the Most High | E |
| Rending from the seventh heaven the hell of exaltation | D |
| Down the seven heavens till the dark seas burn | D |
| Thou that in thunder threwest down the Dragon | D |
| Knowest in what silence the Serpent can return | D |
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| Down through the universe the vast night falling | A |
| Michael Michael Michael of the Morning | A |
| Far down the universe the deep calms calling | A |
| Michael Michael Michael of the Sword | B |
| Bid us not forget in the baths of all forgetfulness | G |
| In the sigh long drawn from the frenzy and the fretfulness | G |
| In the huge holy sempiternal silence | G |
| In the beginning was the Word | H |
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| When from the deeps of dying God astounded | I |
| Angels and devils who do all but die | E |
| Seeing Him fallen where thou couldst not follow | J |
| Seeing Him mounted where thou couldst not fly | E |
| Hand on the hilt thou hast halted all thy legions | G |
| Waiting the Tetelestai and the acclaim | K |
| Swords that salute Him dead and everlasting | A |
| God beyond God and greater than His Name | K |
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| Round us and over us the cold thoughts creeping | A |
| Michael Michael Michael of the battle cry | E |
| Round us and under us the thronged world sleeping | A |
| Michael Michael Michael of the Charge | L |
| Guard us the Word the trysting and the trusting | A |
| Edge upon the honour and the blade unrusting | A |
| Fine as the hair and tauter than the harpstring | A |
| Ready as when it rang upon the targe | L |
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| He that giveth peace unto us not as the world giveth | M |
| He that giveth law unto us not as the scribes | G |
| Shall he be softened for the softening of the cities | G |
| Patient in usury delicate in bribes | G |
| They that come to quiet us saying the sword is broken | D |
| Break man with famine fetter them with gold | N |
| Sell them as sheep and He shall know the selling | A |
| For He was more than murdered He was sold | N |
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| Michael Michael Michael of the Mustering | A |
| Michael of the marching on the mountains of the Lord | B |
| Marshal the world and purge of rot and riot | O |
| Rule through the world till all the world be quiet | O |
| Only establish when the world is broken | D |
| What is unbroken is the word | H |
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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