A Woman's Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB AAA CDD EEF GGG HHH III AAA JJJ KKK| A sentinel angel sitting high in glory | A |
| Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory | A |
| Have mercy mighty angel hear my story | A |
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| I loved and blind with passionate love I fell | B |
| Love brought me down to death and death to Hell | B |
| For God is just and death for sin is well | B |
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| I do not rage against his high decree | A |
| Nor for myself do ask that grace shall be | A |
| But for my love on earth who mourns for me | A |
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| Great Spirit Let me see my love again | C |
| And comfort him one hour and I were fain | D |
| To pay a thousand years of fire and pain | D |
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| Then said the pitying angel Nay repent | E |
| That wild vow Look the dial finger's bent | E |
| Down to the last hour of thy punishment | F |
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| But still she wailed I pray thee let me go | G |
| I cannot rise to peace and leave him so | G |
| O let me soothe him in his bitter woe | G |
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| The brazen gates ground sullenly ajar | H |
| And upward joyous like a rising star | H |
| She rose and vanished in the ether far | H |
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| But soon adown the dying sunset sailing | I |
| And like a wounded bird her pinions trailing | I |
| She fluttered back with broken hearted wailing | I |
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| She sobbed I found him by the summer sea | A |
| Reclined his head upon a maiden's knee | A |
| She curled his hair and kissed him Woe is me | A |
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| She wept Now let my punishment begin | J |
| I have been fond and foolish Let me in | J |
| To expiate my sorrow and my sin | J |
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| The angel answered Nay sad soul go higher | K |
| To be deceived in your true heart's desire | K |
| Was bitterer than a thousand years of fire | K |
John Hay
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