The Two Angels Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC D EE FF GG HH IJ KK L| God called the nearest angels who dwell with Him above | A |
| The tenderest one was Pity the dearest one was Love | A |
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| 'Arise ' He said 'my angels a wail of woe and sin | B |
| Steals through the gates of heaven and saddens all within | B |
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| 'My harps take up the mournful strain that from a lost world swells | C |
| The smoke of torment clouds the light and blights the asphodels | C |
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| 'Fly downward to that under world and on its souls of pain | D |
| Let Love drop smiles like sunshine and Pity tears like rain ' | - |
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| Two faces bowed before the Throne veiled in their golden hair | E |
| Four white wings lessened swiftly down the dark abyss of air | E |
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| The way was strange the flight was long at last the angels came | F |
| Where swung the lost and nether world red wrapped in rayless flame | F |
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| There Pity shuddering wept but Love with faith too strong for fear | G |
| Took heart from God's almightiness and smiled a smile of cheer | G |
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| And lo that tear of Pity quenched the flame whereon it fell | H |
| And with the sunshine of that smile hope entered into hell | H |
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| Two unveiled faces full of joy looked upward to the Throne | I |
| Four white wings folded at the feet of Him who sat thereon | J |
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| And deeper than the sound of seas more soft than falling flake | K |
| Amidst the hush of wing and song the Voice Eternal spake | K |
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| 'Welcome my angels ye have brought a holier joy to heaven | L |
| Henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song of sin forgiven ' | - |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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