A Dialogue Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCCDA EAFFGGHHAAIIJJKLMMNN EOOPPQQ ARRRHH ESSAATTFFUUVVWWMMXX| The Man | A |
| O tyrannous Angel dreadful God | B |
| Who taught thee thus to wield thy rod | B |
| So jealous of a happy heart | C |
| Thou smot'st our happy souls apart | C |
| And chosest too the weaker prey | D |
| Refusedst the worthier foeman | A |
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| The Angel | E |
| Nay | A |
| I am my Master's minister | F |
| Why ravest Peace abides with her | F |
| Thou who wast held in human thrall | G |
| For thee I made the fetters fall | G |
| I loosed thy bonds I set thee free | H |
| Now thou regret'st thy liberty | H |
| And why for what is cold repine | A |
| She is no longer aught divine | A |
| Can those chill lips now purpled speak | I |
| Is any bloom upon that cheek | I |
| Nay if thou wilt an idle kiss | J |
| I grant thee that is all The Man Not this | J |
| Not this I ask but Angel give | K |
| Give back the life that let me live | L |
| Or take away this useless breath | M |
| Grant me her consecrated death | M |
| Where she has past the way is pure | N |
| If anything of good endure | N |
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| The Angel | E |
| Fool dost thou think to raise thy hand | O |
| Against the law no passion planned | O |
| Or seek to shake the stars' repose | P |
| With crying of thy puny woes | P |
| Turn to thy petty ways and there | Q |
| There learn the wisdom of despair | Q |
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| The Man | A |
| O pitiless word Yet slay me too | R |
| Be kind O Death for my soul grew | R |
| Watered and fed by gracious dew | R |
| Till in one hour Love met with thee | H |
| Now the wide world is misery | H |
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| The Angel | E |
| Love who is Love I know him not | S |
| Strange things are ye that learn your lot | S |
| So soon and yet must needs bemoan | A |
| When stricken with the fate foreknown | A |
| Art thou more worthy Man to keep | T |
| Thine age from the appointed sleep | T |
| Thy strength from the sure coming hour | F |
| Than the perfection of a flower | F |
| They ask not for their lovely bloom | U |
| Exemption from the final doom | U |
| And man so full of fault and flaw | V |
| Shall he evade the unchanging law | V |
| Let him be wise and as the flowers | W |
| With joy fulfil his destined hours | W |
| Live with unanxious ample breath | M |
| And when at last he comes to death | M |
| Compose his heart and calm his eye | X |
| And proud to have lived scorn not to die | X |
Robert Laurence Binyon
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