Voices Of The Night : Footsteps Of Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBB BCBC BDBD BEBE FDFD GHFH IJFJ FGKG BLBL FBFBWhen 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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