The Boy And The Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA AA BB A CC DD AA E F GH AA A II BB AA CC AA AA DD JK LL M BB EE FN AA KK AA KK KK AA BB KK AA OP PP Q EE AAMorning evening noon and night | A |
Praise God sang Theocrite | A |
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Then to his poor trade he turned | A |
Whereby the daily meal was earned | A |
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Hard he laboured long and well | B |
O'er his work the boy's curls fell | B |
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But ever at each period | A |
He stopped and sang Praise God '' | - |
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Then back again his curls he threw | C |
And cheerful turned to work anew | C |
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Said Blaise the listening monk Well done | D |
I doubt not thou art heard my son | D |
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As well as if thy voice to day | A |
Were praising God the Pope's great way | A |
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This Easter Day the Pope at Rome | E |
Praises God from Peter's dome '' | - |
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Said Theocrite Would God that I | F |
Might praise him that great way and die '' | - |
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Night passed day shone | G |
And Theocrite was gone | H |
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With God a day endures alway | A |
A thousand years are but a day | A |
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God said in heaven Nor day nor night | A |
Now brings the voice of my delight '' | - |
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Then Gabriel like a rainbow's birth | I |
Spread his wings and sank to earth | I |
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Entered in flesh the empty cell | B |
Lived there and played the craftsman well | B |
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And morning evening noon and night | A |
Praised God in place of Theocrite | A |
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And from a boy to youth he grew | C |
The man put off the stripling's hue | C |
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The man matured and fell away | A |
Into the season of decay | A |
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And ever o'er the trade he bent | A |
And ever lived on earth content | A |
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He did God's will to him all one | D |
If on the earth or in the sun | D |
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God said A praise is in mine ear | J |
There is no doubt in it no fear | K |
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So sing old worlds and so | L |
New worlds that from my footstool go | L |
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Clearer loves sound other ways | M |
I miss my little human praise '' | - |
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Then forth sprang Gabriel's wings off fell | B |
The flesh disguise remained the cell | B |
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'Twas Easter Day he flew to Rome | E |
And paused above Saint Peter's dome | E |
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In the tiring room close by | F |
The great outer gallery | N |
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With his holy vestments dight | A |
Stood the new Pope Theocrite | A |
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And all his past career | K |
Came back upon him clear | K |
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Since when a boy he plied his trade | A |
Till on his life the sickness weighed | A |
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And in his cell when death drew near | K |
An angel in a dream brought cheer | K |
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And rising from the sickness drear | K |
He grew a priest and now stood here | K |
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To the East with praise he turned | A |
And on his sight the angel burned | A |
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I bore thee from thy craftsman's cell | B |
And set thee here I did not well | B |
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Vainly I left my angel sphere | K |
Vain was thy dream of many a year | K |
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Thy voice's praise seemed weak it dropped | A |
Creation's chorus stopped | A |
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Go back and praise again | O |
The early way while I remain | P |
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With that weak voice of our disdain | P |
Take up creation's pausing strain | P |
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Back to the cell and poor employ | Q |
Resume the craftsman and the boy '' | - |
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Theocrite grew old at home | E |
A new Pope dwelt in Peter's dome | E |
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One vanished as the other died | A |
They sought God side by side | A |
Robert Browning
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