Byron And The Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBC DDBDEB FFAFGG HHIHBBB JJKJKK LLMMBFFN KKFKOP KKQKF R KKST A MMRA R TTMMUR| Poet | A |
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| Why this fever why this sighing | B |
| Why this restless longing dying | B |
| For a something dreamy something | B |
| Undefined and yet defying | B |
| All the pride and power of manhood | C |
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| O these years of sin and sorrow | D |
| Smiling while the iron harrow | D |
| Of a keen and biting longing | B |
| Tears and quivers in the marrow | D |
| Of my being every moment | E |
| Of my very inmost being | B |
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| What to me the mad ambition | F |
| For men's praise and proud position | F |
| Struggling fighting to the summit | A |
| Of its vain and earthly mission | F |
| To lie down on bed of ashes | G |
| Bed of barren bitter ashes | G |
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| Cure this fever I have tried it | H |
| Smothered drenched it and defied it | H |
| With a will of brass and iron | I |
| Every smile and look denied it | H |
| Yet it heeded not denying | B |
| And it mocks at my defying | B |
| While my very soul is dying | B |
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| Is there balm in Gilead tell me | J |
| Nay no balm to soothe and quell me | J |
| Must I tremble in this fever | K |
| Death O lift thy hand and fell me | J |
| Let me sink to rest forever | K |
| Where this burning cometh never | K |
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| Sometimes when this restless madness | L |
| Softens down to mellow sadness | L |
| I look back on sun lit valleys | M |
| Where my boyish heart of gladness | M |
| Nestled without pain or longing | B |
| Nestled softly in a vision | F |
| Full of love and hope's fruition | F |
| Lulled by morning songs of spring time | N |
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| Then I ponder and I wonder | K |
| Was some heart chord snapped asunder | K |
| When the threads were soft and silken | F |
| Did some fatal boyish blunder | K |
| Plant a canker in my bosom | O |
| That hath ever burned and rankled | P |
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| O this thirsting thirsting hanker | K |
| O this burning burning canker' | K |
| Driving Peace and Hope to shipwreck | Q |
| Without rudder without anchor | K |
| On the reef rocks of Damnation | F |
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| Invisible Angel | R |
| - | |
| Jesus Son of Virgin Mary | K |
| Lift the burden from the weary | K |
| Pity Jesus and anoint him | S |
| With the holy balm of Gilead | T |
| - | |
| Poet | A |
| - | |
| Yea Christ Jesus pour thy blessings | M |
| On these terrible heart pressings | M |
| O I bless thee unseen Angel | R |
| Lead me teach me holy Spirit | A |
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| Angel | R |
| - | |
| There is balm in Gilead | T |
| There is balm in Gilead | T |
| Peace awaits thee with caressings | M |
| Sitting at the feet of Jesus | M |
| At the right hand of Jehovah | U |
| At the blessed feet of Jesus Alleluia | R |
Hanford Lennox Gordon
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