The Guardian-angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDDB EFGFDDE HAHAGGH B IJIJDDI B KLKLBBK B MNMNOOM B PQPQGRS B BTBTUUB| A PICTURE AT FANO | A |
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| Dear and great Angel wouldst thou only leave | B |
| That child when thou hast done with him for me | C |
| Let me sit all the day here that when eve | B |
| Shall find performed thy special ministry | C |
| And time come for departure thou suspending | D |
| Thy flight mayst see another child for tending | D |
| Another still to quiet and retrieve | B |
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| II | - |
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| Then I shall feel thee step one step no more | E |
| From where thou standest now to where I gaze | F |
| And suddenly my head is covered o'er | G |
| With those wings white above the child who prays | F |
| Now on that tomb and I shall feel thee guarding | D |
| Me out of all the world for me discarding | D |
| Yon heaven thy home that waits and opes its door | E |
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| III | - |
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| I would not look up thither past thy head | H |
| Because the door opes like that child I know | A |
| For I should have thy gracious face instead | H |
| Thou bird of God And wilt thou bend me low | A |
| Like him and lay like his my hands together | G |
| And lift them up to pray and gently tether | G |
| Me as thy lamb there with thy garment's spread | H |
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| IV | B |
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| If this was ever granted I would rest | I |
| My bead beneath thine while thy healing hands | J |
| Close covered both my eyes beside thy breast | I |
| Pressing the brain which too much thought expands | J |
| Back to its proper size again and smoothing | D |
| Distortion down till every nerve had soothing | D |
| And all lay quiet happy and suppressed | I |
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| V | B |
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| How soon all worldly wrong would be repaired | K |
| I think how I should view the earth and skies | L |
| And sea when once again my brow was bared | K |
| After thy healing with such different eyes | L |
| O world as God has made it All is beauty | B |
| And knowing this is love and love is duty | B |
| What further may be sought for or declared | K |
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| VI | B |
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| Guercino drew this angel I saw teach | M |
| Alfred dear friend that little child to pray | N |
| Holding the little hands up each to each | M |
| Pressed gently with his own head turned away | N |
| Over the earth where so much lay before him | O |
| Of work to do though heaven was opening o'er him | O |
| And he was left at Fano by the beach | M |
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| VII | B |
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| We were at Fano and three times we went | P |
| To sit and see him in his chapel there | Q |
| And drink his beauty to our soul's content | P |
| My angel with me too and since I care | Q |
| For dear Guercino's fame to which in power | G |
| And glory comes this picture for a dower | R |
| Fraught with a pathos so magnificent | S |
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| VIII | B |
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| And since he did not work thus earnestly | B |
| At all times and has else endured some wrong | T |
| I took one thought his picture struck from me | B |
| And spread it out translating it to song | T |
| My love is here Where are you dear old friend | U |
| How rolls the Wairoa at your world's far end | U |
| This is Ancona yonder is the sea | B |
Robert Browning
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