The Demoniac Of Gadara Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEF AG AHI IGGACAAJE AKG JHGAGGAALGAIMNK AG AIOPBABIAGGG Q AQAQQR QFG IGQ QS IABATGAQUQV QFG AGBQQFG IQGA QQAA IGAWBAG BGAQ BBBXVGAAA BGYAQGA GADARENE | A |
He hath escaped hath plucked his chains asunder | B |
And broken his fetters always night and day | C |
Is in the mountains here and in the tombs | D |
Crying aloud and cutting himself with stones | E |
Exceeding fierce so that no man can tame him | F |
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THE DEMONIAC from above unseen | A |
O Aschmedai O Aschmedai have pity | G |
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A GADARENE | A |
Listen It is his voice Go warn the people | H |
Just landing from the lake | I |
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THE DEMONIAC | I |
O Aschmedai | G |
Thou angel of the bottomless pit have pity | G |
It was enough to hurl King Solomon | A |
On whom be peace two hundred leagues away | C |
Into the country and to make him scullion | A |
In the kitchen of the King of Maschkemen | A |
Why dost thou hurl me here among these rocks | J |
And cut me with these stones | E |
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A GADARENE | A |
He raves and mutters | K |
He knows not what | G |
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THE DEMONIAC appearing from a tomb among the rocks | J |
The wild cock Tarnegal | H |
Singeth to me and bids me to the banquet | G |
Where all the Jews shall come for they have slain | A |
Behemoth the great ox who daily cropped | G |
A thousand hills for food and at a draught | G |
Drank up the river Jordan and have slain | A |
The huge Leviathan and stretched his skin | A |
Upon the high walls of Jerusalem | L |
And made them shine from one end of the world | G |
Unto the other and the fowl Barjuchne | A |
Whose outspread wings eclipse the sun and make | I |
Midnight at noon o'er all the continents | M |
And we shall drink the wine of Paradise | N |
From Adam's cellars | K |
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A GADARENE | A |
O thou unclean spirit | G |
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THE DEMONIAC hurling down a stone | A |
This is the wonderful Barjuchne's egg | I |
That fell out of her nest and broke to pieces | O |
And swept away three hundred cedar trees | P |
And threescore villages Rabbi Eliezer | B |
How thou didst sin there in that seaport town | A |
When thou hadst carried safe thy chest of silver | B |
Over the seven rivers for her sake | I |
I too have sinned beyond the reach of pardon | A |
Ye hills and mountains pray for mercy on me | G |
Ye stars and planets pray for mercy on me | G |
Ye sun and moon oh pray for mercy on me | G |
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CHRISTUS and his disciples pass | Q |
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A GADARENE | A |
There is a man here of Decapolis | Q |
Who hath an unclean spirit so that none | A |
Can pass this way He lives among the tombs | Q |
Up there upon the cliffs and hurls down stones | Q |
On those who pass beneath | R |
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CHRISTUS | Q |
Come out of him | F |
Thou unclean spirit | G |
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THE DEMONIAC | I |
What have I to do | G |
With thee thou Son of God Do not torment us | Q |
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CHRISTUS | Q |
What is thy name | S |
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THE DEMONIAC | I |
Legion for we are many | A |
Cain the first murderer and the King Belshazzar | B |
And Evil Merodach of Babylon | A |
And Admatha the death cloud prince of Persia | T |
And Aschmedai the angel of the pit | G |
And many other devils We are Legion | A |
Send us not forth beyond Decapolis | Q |
Command us not to go into the deep | U |
There is a herd of swine here in the pastures | Q |
Let us go into them | V |
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CHRISTUS | Q |
Come out of him | F |
Thou unclean spirit | G |
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A GADARENE | A |
See how stupefied | G |
How motionless he stands He cries no more | B |
He seems bewildered and in silence stares | Q |
As one who walking in his sleep awakes | Q |
And knows not where he is and looks about him | F |
And at his nakedness and is ashamed | G |
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THE DEMONIAC | I |
Why am I here alone among the tombs | Q |
What have they done to me that I am naked | G |
Ah woe is me | A |
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CHRISTUS | Q |
Go home unto thy friends | Q |
And tell them how great things the Lord hath done | A |
For thee and how He had compassion on thee | A |
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A SWINEHERD running | I |
The herds the herd O most unlucky day | G |
They were all feeding quiet in the sun | A |
When suddenly they started and grew savage | W |
As the wild boars of Tabor and together | B |
Rushed down a precipice into the sea | A |
They are all drowned | G |
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PETER | B |
Thus righteously are punished | G |
The apostate Jews that eat the flesh of swine | A |
And broth of such abominable things | Q |
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GREEKS OF GADARA | B |
We sacrifice a sow unto Demeter | B |
At the beginning of harvest and another | B |
To Dionysus at the vintage time | X |
Therefore we prize our herds of swine and count them | V |
Not as unclean but as things consecrate | G |
To the immortal gods O great magician | A |
Depart out of our coasts let us alone | A |
We are afraid of thee | A |
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PETER | B |
Let us depart | G |
For they that sanctify and purify | Y |
Themselves in gardens eating flesh of swine | A |
And the abomination and the mouse | Q |
Shall be consumed together saith the Lord | G |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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