The Robe Of Christ Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDC EFGF HIJI AKLK MBNB OPQP RSTS UAVA WCXC YZA2Z B2C2BC2 D2AE2A F2BG2B H2TA2T BCI2CFor Cecil Chesterton | A |
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At the foot of the Cross on Calvary | B |
Three soldiers sat and diced | C |
And one of them was the Devil | D |
And he won the Robe of Christ | C |
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When the Devil comes in his proper form | E |
To the chamber where I dwell | F |
I know him and make the Sign of the Cross | G |
Which drives him back to Hell | F |
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And when he comes like a friendly man | H |
And puts his hand in mine | I |
The fervour in his voice is not | J |
From love or joy or wine | I |
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And when he comes like a woman | A |
With lovely smiling eyes | K |
Black dreams float over his golden head | L |
Like a swarm of carrion flies | K |
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Now many a million tortured souls | M |
In his red halls there be | B |
Why does he spend his subtle craft | N |
In hunting after me | B |
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Kings queens and crested warriors | O |
Whose memory rings through time | P |
These are his prey and what to him | Q |
Is this poor man of rhyme | P |
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That he with such laborious skill | R |
Should change from role to role | S |
Should daily act so many a part | T |
To get my little soul | S |
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Oh he can be the forest | U |
And he can be the sun | A |
Or a buttercup or an hour of rest | V |
When the weary day is done | A |
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I saw him through a thousand veils | W |
And has not this sufficed | C |
Now must I look on the Devil robed | X |
In the radiant Robe of Christ | C |
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He comes and his face is sad and mild | Y |
With thorns his head is crowned | Z |
There are great bleeding wounds in his feet | A2 |
And in each hand a wound | Z |
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How can I tell who am a fool | B2 |
If this be Christ or no | C2 |
Those bleeding hands outstretched to me | B |
Those eyes that love me so | C2 |
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I see the Robe I look I hope | D2 |
I fear but there is one | A |
Who will direct my troubled mind | E2 |
Christ's Mother knows her Son | A |
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O Mother of Good Counsel lend | F2 |
Intelligence to me | B |
Encompass me with wisdom | G2 |
Thou Tower of Ivory | B |
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This is the Man of Lies she says | H2 |
Disguised with fearful art | T |
He has the wounded hands and feet | A2 |
But not the wounded heart | T |
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Beside the Cross on Calvary | B |
She watched them as they diced | C |
She saw the Devil join the game | I2 |
And win the Robe of Christ | C |
Joyce Kilmer
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