Satan: 1920 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCDEFEBGEGE EHEIJJKKELEL| I read there is a man who sits apart | A |
| A sort of human spider in his den | B |
| Who meditates upon a fearful art | A |
| The swiftest way to slay his fellow men | B |
| Behind a mask of glass he dreams his hell | C |
| With chemic skill to pack so fierce a dust | D |
| Within the thunderbolt of one small shell | C |
| Sating in vivid thought his shuddering lust | D |
| Whole cities in one gasp of flame shall die | E |
| Swept with an all obliterating rain | F |
| Of sudden fire and poison from the sky | E |
| Nothing that breathes be left to breathe again | B |
| And only gloating eyes from out the air | G |
| Watching the twisting fires and ears attent | E |
| For children's cries and woman's shrill despair | G |
| The crash of shrines and towers in ruin rent | E |
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| High in the sun the sneering airmen glide | E |
| Glance at wrist watches scarce a minute gone | H |
| And London Paris or New York has died | E |
| Scarce twice they look then turn and hurry on | I |
| And far away one in his quiet room | J |
| Dreams of a fiercer dust a deadlier fume | J |
| The wireless crackles him Complete success | K |
| Next time he smiles in half a minute less | K |
| To this the climbing brain has won at last | E |
| A nation's life gone like a shrivelled scroll | L |
| And thus To Day outstrips the dotard Past | E |
| I envy not that man his devil's soul | L |
Richard Le Gallienne
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