Footsteps Of Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC BDBD BEBE FDFD GHFH IJFJ FGKG BLBL FBFB| When the hours of Day are numbered | A |
| And the voices of the Night | B |
| Wake the better soul that slumbered | B |
| To a holy calm delight | B |
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| Ere the evening lamps are lighted | B |
| And like phantoms grim and tall | C |
| Shadows from the fitful firelight | B |
| Dance upon the parlor wall | C |
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| Then the forms of the departed | B |
| Enter at the open door | D |
| The beloved the true hearted | B |
| Come to visit me once more | D |
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| He the young and strong who cherished | B |
| Noble longings for the strife | E |
| By the roadside fell and perished | B |
| Weary with the march of life | E |
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| They the holy ones and weakly | F |
| Who the cross of suffering bore | D |
| Folded their pale hands so meekly | F |
| Spake with us on earth no more | D |
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| And with them the Being Beauteous | G |
| Who unto my youth was given | H |
| More than all things else to love me | F |
| And is now a saint in heaven | H |
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| With a slow and noiseless footstep | I |
| Comes that messenger divine | J |
| Takes the vacant chair beside me | F |
| Lays her gentle hand in mine | J |
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| And she sits and gazes at me | F |
| With those deep and tender eyes | G |
| Like the stars so still and saint like | K |
| Looking downward from the skies | G |
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| Uttered not yet comprehended | B |
| Is the spirit's voiceless prayer | L |
| Soft rebukes in blessings ended | B |
| Breathing from her lips of air | L |
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| Oh though oft depressed and lonely | F |
| All my fears are laid aside | B |
| If I but remember only | F |
| Such as these have lived and died | B |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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