Warning Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFGE FHHF IJJI IAAI| When enwrapped in rosy pleasure | A |
| Our careless pulses beat | B |
| With a rhythm sweet sweet | B |
| To the music's merry measure | A |
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| When world waves rise around us | C |
| With soft transparent weight | D |
| Light in seeming yet so great | D |
| The liquid chains have bound us | C |
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| Then softly downward falling | E |
| If we listen we can hear | F |
| From a purer atmosphere | G |
| A warning and a calling | E |
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| 'Tis not uttered to our ear | F |
| To our spirit it is spoken | H |
| In the wonderful unbroken | H |
| Heavenly speech that spirits hear | F |
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| Strange and solemn doth it roll | I |
| Downward like a yearning cry | J |
| From that belfry far on high | J |
| Warning calling to our soul | I |
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| Ever ever doth it roll | I |
| Our angel guards the tower | A |
| Ringing ringing every hour | A |
| Warning calling to our soul | I |
Marietta Holley
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