The Two Angels. (birds Of Passage. Flight The First) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGF HIHI JKJL GHGH EMEM NCNA OPOP QRQR HSHT| Two angels one of Life and one of Death | A |
| Passed o'er our village as the morning broke | B |
| The dawn was on their faces and beneath | C |
| The sombre houses hearsed with plumes of smoke | B |
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| Their attitude and aspect were the same | D |
| Alike their features and their robes of white | E |
| But one was crowned with amaranth as with flame | D |
| And one with asphodels like flakes of light | E |
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| I saw them pause on their celestial way | F |
| Then said I with deep fear and doubt oppressed | G |
| 'Beat not so loud my heart lest thou betray | F |
| The place where thy beloved are at rest ' | - |
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| And he who wore the crown of asphodels | H |
| Descending at my door began to knock | I |
| And my soul sank within me as in wells | H |
| The waters sink before an earthquake's shock | I |
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| I recognized the nameless agony | J |
| The terror and the tremor and the pain | K |
| That oft before had filled or haunted me | J |
| And now returned with threefold strength again | L |
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| The door I opened to my heavenly guest | G |
| And listened for I thought I heard God's voice | H |
| And knowing whatsoe'er he sent was best | G |
| Dared neither to lament nor to rejoice | H |
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| Then with a smile that filled the house with light | E |
| 'My errand is not Death but Life ' he said | M |
| And ere I answered passing out of sight | E |
| On his celestial embassy he sped | M |
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| 'T was at thy door O friend and not at mine | N |
| The angel with the amaranthine wreath | C |
| Pausing descended and with voice divine | N |
| Whispered a word that had a sound like Death | A |
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| Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom | O |
| A shadow on those features fair and thin | P |
| And softly from that hushed and darkened room | O |
| Two angels issued where but one went in | P |
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| All is of God If he but wave his hand | Q |
| The mists collect the rain falls thick and loud | R |
| Till with a smile of light on sea and land | Q |
| Lo he looks back from the departing cloud | R |
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| Angels of Life and Death alike are his | H |
| Without his leave they pass no threshold o'er | S |
| Who then would wish or dare believing this | H |
| Against his messengers to shut the door | T |
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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