Odessa Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDE FGHH IIJJ KKLA MMAA| A horror of great darkness over them | A |
| No cloud of fire to guide and cover them | A |
| Beasts for the shambles tremulous with dread | B |
| They crouch on alien soil among their dead | B |
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| Thy shield and thy exceeding great reward | C |
| This was thine ancient covenant O Lord | C |
| Which sealed with mirth these many thousand years | D |
| Is black with blood and blotted out with tears | E |
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| Have these not toiled through Egypt's burning sun | F |
| And wept beside the streams of Babylon | G |
| Led from thy wilderness of hill and glen | H |
| Into a wider wilderness of men | H |
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| Life bore them ever less of gain than loss | I |
| Before and since Golgotha's piteous Cross | I |
| And surely now their sorrow hath sufficed | J |
| For all the hate that grew from love of Christ | J |
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| Thou great God heart heed thou thy people's cry | K |
| Bare browed and empty handed where they die | K |
| Sea sundered from wall girt Jerusalem | L |
| There being no sword that wills to succor them | A |
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| And Miriam's song long hushed will rise to thee | M |
| And all thy people lift their eyes to thee | M |
| When for the darkness' horror over them | A |
| Thou comest a cloud of light to cover them | A |
John Charles Mcneill
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