The Soul Forsaken Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBEECDD FGGFHHFDD IJJIDDJDD CDICFFCDD| Head bowed I stood before the Gates of | A |
| God | B |
| And pleaded starvingly | C |
| The Great Eye would not see | D |
| And cold with hopeless tears again I trod | B |
| The dreaded vast | E |
| I felt the souls immortal moving past | E |
| All singingly | C |
| Oh pity me Oh pity me | D |
| Wandering eternally | D |
| - | |
| I moved among Olympic ways amoan | F |
| And looked with searching eye | G |
| Upon the mournful sky | G |
| I lay and wept before the crumbled throne | F |
| Of Jove the dead | H |
| I heard the soundless twilight and I fled | H |
| With hopeless sign | F |
| Oh pity me Oh pity me | D |
| Wandering eternally | D |
| - | |
| I strayed from peak to peak from star to star | I |
| And roamed in search of grace | J |
| Amid the field of space | J |
| I craved at barren pagan shrines of far | I |
| Antiquity | D |
| But mouths were mute and eyes refused to see | D |
| The asking face | J |
| Oh pity me Oh pity me | D |
| Wandering eternally | D |
| - | |
| I lay abreast above the chasm of Hell | C |
| And claimed my destiny | D |
| Amid it demonry | I |
| In vain I shrieked for entrance at the well | C |
| Of Sin | F |
| I heard the Sobs and Sorrows rushing in | F |
| All moaningly | C |
| Oh pity me Oh pity me | D |
| Wandering eternally | D |
Leon Gellert
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