The Angel With The Book Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF HHCIIC CCJCCJ KKLMNO PPCKKC CCMQQM EEQPPQ| When to that house I came which long ago | A |
| My heart had builded of its joy and woe | A |
| Upon its threshold lo I paused again | B |
| Dreading to enter fearing to behold | C |
| The place wherein my Love had lived of old | C |
| And where my other self lay dead and slain | D |
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| I feared to see some shape some Hope once dear | E |
| Behind the arras dead some face of Fear | E |
| With eyes accusing that would sear my soul | F |
| Taking away my manhood and my strength | G |
| With heartbreak memories And yet at length | G |
| Again I stood within that house of dole | F |
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| Sombre and beautiful with stately things | H |
| The long hall lay and by the stairs the wings | H |
| Of Life and Love rose marble and unmarred | C |
| And all the walls hung grave with tapestry | I |
| Gesticulated sorrow gazed at me | I |
| Strange speculation in their dark regard | C |
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| Through one tall oriel the close of day | C |
| Glared with its crimson face and laid a ray | C |
| A burning finger on the stairway where | J |
| A trail of tears as of a wounded heart | C |
| Led to a passage with a room apart | C |
| A room where Love had perished of despair | J |
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| Now all was empty silent even of sighs | K |
| And yet I felt within that room were eyes | K |
| Unearthly eyes I dared not look upon | L |
| That had seen God within them hell and heaven | M |
| Of all the past I dared not look yet even | N |
| As I drew back my feet were slowly drawn | O |
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| Into that room lit with those eyes I saw | P |
| An Angel standing with the Book of Law | P |
| His raiment lightening from head to feet | C |
| And swords of flame and darkness in his eyes | K |
| He stood the great Book open as the skies | K |
| Like some great heart throbbing with rosy heat | C |
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| One moment blazed the vision then I heard | C |
| Not with my ears but with my soul this word | C |
| I am the Law through which Love is Each one | M |
| Through me must win unto his heaven or hell | Q |
| I build the house in which all memories dwell | Q |
| Thy house is finished and my task is done | M |
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| And where the vision burned was nothing Fear | E |
| Bowed me to earth for flaming very near | E |
| I felt that Angel's presence like a spell | Q |
| That turned my eyesight inward where I saw | P |
| That this was Love whose other name is Law | P |
| By whom was built my House of Heaven and Hell | Q |
Madison Julius Cawein
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