Achan Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFDG BHAH IJDK HLAM NMIM ODHP QBBR| HATH he not followed a star through the darkness | A |
| Ye people who sit at the table of Jephthah | B |
| Oh turn with the face to a light in the mountains | C |
| Behold it is further from Achan than ever | D |
| I know how it is with my brothers in Mizpeh | E |
| Said Achan the swift footed runner of Zorah | F |
| They look at the wood they have hewn for the altar | D |
| And think of a shadow in sackcloth and ashes | G |
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| I know how it is with the daughter of Jephthah | B |
| O Ada my love and the fairest of women | H |
| She wails in the time when her heart is so zealous | A |
| For God who hath stricken the children of Ammon | H |
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| I said I would bring her the odours of Edom | I |
| And armfuls of spices to set at the banquet | J |
| Behold I have fronted the chieftain her father | D |
| And strong men have wept for the leader of thousands | K |
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| My love is a rose of the roses of Sharon | H |
| All lonely and bright as the Moon in the myrtles | L |
| Her lips like to honeycombs fill with the sweetness | A |
| That Achan the thirsty is hindered from drinking | M |
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| Her women have wept for the love that is wasted | N |
| Like wine which is spilt when the people are wanting | M |
| And hot winds have dried all the cisterns of Elim | I |
| For love that is wasted her women were wailing | M |
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| The timbrels fall silent And dost thou not hear it | O |
| A voice like the sound of a lute when we loiter | D |
| And sit by the pools in the valleys of Arnon | H |
| And suck the cool grapes that are growing in clusters | P |
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| She glides like a myrrh scented wind through the willows | Q |
| O Ada behold it is Achan that speaketh | B |
| I know thou art near me but never can see thee | B |
| Because of the horrible drouth in mine eyelids | R |
Henry Kendall
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