An Angel In The House Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEBBFFHow sweet it were if without feeble fright | A |
Or dying of the dreadful beauteous sight | A |
An angel came to us and we could bear | B |
To see him issue from the silent air | B |
At evening in our room and bend on ours | C |
His divine eyes and bring us from his bowers | C |
News of dear friends and children who have never | D |
Been dead indeed as we shall know forever | D |
Alas we think not what we daily see | E |
About our hearths angels that are to be | E |
Or may be if they will and we prepare | B |
Their souls and ours to meet in happy air | B |
A child a friend a wife whose soft heart sings | F |
In unison with ours breeding its future wings | F |
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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