The Prophets Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF FFFF FFFG FFFF FHFI| There are the modern prophets here | A |
| Though altars totally are felt | B |
| Their eyes are very deep and clear | C |
| In them the flame of future set | D |
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| For them the calls of fame are alien | E |
| They re pressed by mass and depth of words | F |
| All they are frightened pale and sullen | E |
| In tombs of stony abodes | F |
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| And sometimes in the fits of sadness | F |
| A prophet just repelled by us | F |
| Rise up to skies his look of greatness | F |
| The look of clear and beaming eyes | F |
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| He says that he s in bonds of madness | F |
| But that his soul s a light for us | F |
| That he has seen in depths of sadness | F |
| The shining face of Jesus Christ | G |
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| The dreams of Lord have many faces | F |
| Kind is a hand of him who gives | F |
| Not just the one like him in grace is | F |
| And as a knight of kindness lives | F |
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| He says that World is not such fierce | F |
| That he s a prince of Future Dawn | H |
| But just the towers black spirits | F |
| Listen to him with mock and scorn | I |
Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilev
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