Frank Little At Calvary Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEFGHCBIJKLM NOPHQRSQT UBVAWXYZA2A2W AB2C2D2E2DF2QF2 RA2G2H2I2NWTJ2NYT K2L2M2N2N2RC2 A O2P2C2VQ2 R2 C2S2 A WT2Q2U2BV2WW2X2Q2Y2X 2E2Z2WE2 E2KE2A3E2KE2Q2 B B3E2BE2B| I | A |
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| He walked under the shadow of the Hill | B |
| Where men are fed into the fires | C |
| And walled apart | D |
| Unarmed and alone | E |
| He summoned his mates from the pit's mouth | F |
| Where tools rested on the floors | G |
| And great cranes swung | H |
| Unemptied on the iron girders | C |
| And they who were the Lords of the Hill | B |
| Were seized with a great fear | I |
| When they heard out of the silence of wheels | J |
| The answer ringing | K |
| In endless reverberations | L |
| Under the mountain | M |
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| So they covered up their faces | N |
| And crept upon him as he slept | O |
| Out of eye holes in black cloth | P |
| They looked upon him who had flung | H |
| Between them and their ancient prey | Q |
| The frail barricade of his life | R |
| And when night that has connived at so much | S |
| Was heavy with the unborn day | Q |
| They haled him from his bed | T |
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| Who might know of that wild ride | U |
| Only the bleak Hill | B |
| The red Hill vigilant | V |
| Like a blood shot eye | A |
| In the black mask of night | W |
| Dared watch them as they raced | X |
| By each blind folded street | Y |
| Godiva might have ridden down | Z |
| But when they stopped beside the Place | A2 |
| I know he turned his face | A2 |
| Wistfully to the accessory night | W |
| - | |
| And when he saw against the sky | A |
| Sagged like a silken net | B2 |
| Under its load of stars | C2 |
| The black bridge poised | D2 |
| Like a gigantic spider motionless | E2 |
| I know there was a silence in his heart | D |
| As of a frozen sea | F2 |
| Where some half lifted arm mid way | Q |
| Wavers and drops heavily | F2 |
| - | |
| I know he waved to life | R |
| And that life signaled back transcending space | A2 |
| To each high powered sense | G2 |
| So that he missed no gesture of the wind | H2 |
| Drawing the shut leaves close | I2 |
| So that he saw the light on comrades' faces | N |
| Of camp fires out of sight | W |
| And the savor of meat and bread | T |
| Blew in his nostrils and the breath | J2 |
| Of unrailed spaces | N |
| Where shut wild clover smelled as sweet | Y |
| As a virgin in her bed | T |
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| I know he looked once at America | K2 |
| Quiescent with her great flanks on the globe | L2 |
| And once at the skies whirling above him | M2 |
| Then all that he had spoken against | N2 |
| And struck against and thrust against | N2 |
| Over the frail barricade of his life | R |
| Rushed between him and the stars | C2 |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Life thunders on | O2 |
| Over the black bridge | P2 |
| The line of lighted cars | C2 |
| Creeps like a monstrous serpent | V |
| Spooring gold | Q2 |
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| Watchman what of the track | R2 |
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| Night silence stars | C2 |
| All's Well | S2 |
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| III | A |
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| Light | W |
| Breaking mists | T2 |
| Hills gliding like hands out of a slipping hold | Q2 |
| Light over the pit mouths | U2 |
| Streaming in tenuous rays down the black gullets of the Hill | B |
| The copper insensate sleeping in the buried lode | V2 |
| Light | W |
| Forcing the clogged windows of arsenals | W2 |
| Probing with long sentient fingers in the copper chips | X2 |
| Gleaming metallic and cold | Q2 |
| In numberless slivers of steel | Y2 |
| Light over the trestles and the iron clips | X2 |
| Of the black bridge poised like a gigantic spider motionless | E2 |
| Sweet inquisition of light like a child's wonder | Z2 |
| Intrusive innocently staring light | W |
| That nothing appals | E2 |
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| Light in the slow fumbling summer leaves | E2 |
| Cooing and calling | K |
| All winged and avid things | E2 |
| Waking the early flies keen to the scent | A3 |
| Green jeweled iridescent flies | E2 |
| Unerringly steering | K |
| Swarming over the blackened lips | E2 |
| The young day sprays with indiscriminate gold | Q2 |
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| Watchman what of the Hill | B |
| - | |
| Wheels turn | B3 |
| The laden cars | E2 |
| Go rumbling to the mill | B |
| And Labor walks beside the mules | E2 |
| All's Well with the Hill | B |
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