The Spanish Jew's Tale - The Wayside Inn - Part Third Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBBCCDDEEBBFF AAGGHHBB IIFFBBBBBBCCDD B BBFHHF BFFFBFFB BAAFBFBFBBF CFBFCCBFCC| AZRAEL | A |
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| King Solomon before his palace gate | B |
| At evening on the pavement tessellate | B |
| Was walking with a stranger from the East | B |
| Arrayed in rich attire as for a feast | B |
| The mighty Runjeet Sing a learned man | C |
| And Rajah of the realms of Hindostan | C |
| And as they walked the guest became aware | D |
| Of a white figure in the twilight air | D |
| Gazing intent as one who with surprise | E |
| His form and features seemed to recognize | E |
| And in a whisper to the king he said | B |
| What is yon shape that pallid as the dead | B |
| Is watching me as if he sought to trace | F |
| In the dim light the features of my face | F |
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| The king looked and replied I know him well | A |
| It is the Angel men call Azrael | A |
| 'T is the Death Angel what hast thou to fear | G |
| And the guest answered Lest he should come near | G |
| And speak to me and take away my breath | H |
| Save me from Azrael save me from death | H |
| O king that hast dominion o'er the wind | B |
| Bid it arise and bear me hence to Ind | B |
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| The king gazed upward at the cloudless sky | I |
| Whispered a word and raised his hand on high | I |
| And lo the signet ring of chrysoprase | F |
| On his uplifted finger seemed to blaze | F |
| With hidden fire and rushing from the west | B |
| There came a mighty wind and seized the guest | B |
| And lifted him from earth and on they passed | B |
| His shining garments streaming in the blast | B |
| A silken banner o'er the walls upreared | B |
| A purple cloud that gleamed and disappeared | B |
| Then said the Angel smiling If this man | C |
| Be Rajah Runjeet Sing of Hindostan | C |
| Thou hast done well in listening to his prayer | D |
| I was upon my way to seek him there | D |
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| INTERLUDE | B |
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| O Edrehi forbear to night | B |
| Your ghostly legends of affright | B |
| And let the Talmud rest in peace | F |
| Spare us your dismal tales of death | H |
| That almost take away one's breath | H |
| So doing may your tribe increase | F |
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| Thus the Sicilian said then went | B |
| And on the spinet's rattling keys | F |
| Played Marianina like a breeze | F |
| From Naples and the Southern seas | F |
| That brings us the delicious scent | B |
| Of citron and of orange trees | F |
| And memories of soft days of ease | F |
| At Capri and Amalfi spent | B |
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| Not so the eager Poet said | B |
| At least not so before I tell | A |
| The story of my Azrael | A |
| An angel mortal as ourselves | F |
| Which in an ancient tome I found | B |
| Upon a convent's dusty shelves | F |
| Chained with an iron chain and bound | B |
| In parchment and with clasps of brass | F |
| Lest from its prison some dark day | B |
| It might be stolen or steal away | B |
| While the good friars were singing mass | F |
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| It is a tale of Charlemagne | C |
| When like a thunder cloud that lowers | F |
| And sweeps from mountain crest to coast | B |
| With lightning flaming through its showers | F |
| He swept across the Lombard plain | C |
| Beleaguering with his warlike train | C |
| Pavia the country's pride and boast | B |
| The City of the Hundred Towers | F |
| Thus heralded the tale began | C |
| And thus in sober measure ran | C |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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