Tartarus Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBBCCBB DDBBEEFF GGHHIIJJ BBIIGGKK| While in my simple gospel creed | A |
| That God is Love so plain I read | B |
| Shall dreams of heathen birth affright | B |
| My pathway through the coming night | B |
| Ah Lord of life though spectres pale | C |
| Fill with their threats the shadowy vale | C |
| With Thee my faltering steps to aid | B |
| How can I dare to be afraid | B |
| - | |
| Shall mouldering page or fading scroll | D |
| Outface the charter of the soul | D |
| Shall priesthood's palsied arm protect | B |
| The wrong our human hearts reject | B |
| And smite the lips whose shuddering cry | E |
| Proclaims a cruel creed a lie | E |
| The wizard's rope we disallow | F |
| Was justice once is murder now | F |
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| Is there a world of blank despair | G |
| And dwells the Omnipresent there | G |
| Does He behold with smile serene | H |
| The shows of that unending scene | H |
| Where sleepless hopeless anguish lies | I |
| And ever dying never dies | I |
| Say does He hear the sufferer's groan | J |
| And is that child of wrath his own | J |
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| O mortal wavering in thy trust | B |
| Lift thy pale forehead from the dust | B |
| The mists that cloud thy darkened eyes | I |
| Fade ere they reach the o'erarching skies | I |
| When the blind heralds of despair | G |
| Would bid thee doubt a Father's care | G |
| Look up from earth and read above | K |
| On heaven's blue tablet GOD IS LOVE | K |
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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