The Tower Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGGG AAHAHIIGGJGGGG AAKKLMG GGGGG NNAA OOGG| It was deep night and over Jerusalem's low roofs | A |
| The moon floated drifting through high vaporous woofs | A |
| The moonlight crept and glistened silent solemn sweet | B |
| Over dome and column up empty endless street | B |
| In the closed scented gardens the rose loosed from the stem | C |
| Her white showery petals none regarded them | C |
| The starry thicket breathed odours to the sentinel palm | D |
| Silence possessed the city like a soul possessed by calm | D |
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| Not a spark in the warren under the giant night | E |
| Save where in a turret's lantern beamed a grave still light | E |
| There in the topmost chamber a gold eyed lamp was lit | F |
| Marvellous lamp in darkness informing redeeming it | F |
| For set in that tiny chamber Jesus the blessed and doomed | G |
| Spoke to the lone apostles as light to men en tombed | G |
| And spreading his hands in blessing as one soon to be dead | G |
| He put soft enchantment into spare wine and bread | G |
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| The hearts of the disciples were broken and full of tears | A |
| Because their lord the spearless was hedg d about with spears | A |
| And in his face the sickness of departure had spread a gloom | H |
| At leaving his young friends friendless | A |
| They could not forget the tomb | H |
| He smiled subduedly telling in tones soft as voice of the dove | I |
| The endlessness of sorrow the eternal solace of love | I |
| And lifting the earthly tokens wine and sorrowful bread | G |
| He bade them sup and remember one who lived and was dead | G |
| And they could not restrain their weeping | J |
| But one rose up to depart | G |
| Having weakness and hate of weakness raging within his heart | G |
| And bowed to the robed assembly whose eyes gleamed wet in the light | G |
| Judas arose and departed night went out to the night | G |
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| Then Jesus lifted his voice like a fountain in an ocean of tears | A |
| And comforted his disciples and calmed and allayed their fears | A |
| But Judas wound down the turret creeping from floor to floor | K |
| And would fly but one leaning weeping barred him beside the door | K |
| And he knew her by her ruddy garment and two yet watching men | L |
| Mary of Seven Evils Mary Magdalen | M |
| And he was frighted at her She sighed 'I dreamed him dead | G |
| We sell the body for silver ' | - |
| Then Judas cried out and fled | G |
| Forth into the night The moon had begun to set | G |
| A drear deft wind went sifting setting the dust afret | G |
| Into the heart of the city Judas ran on and prayed | G |
| To stern Jehovah lest his deed make him afraid | G |
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| But in the tiny lantern hanging as if on air | N |
| The disciples sat unspeaking Amaze and peace were there | N |
| For his voice more lovely than song of all earthly birds | A |
| In accents humble and happy spoke slow consoling words | A |
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| Thus Jesus discoursed and was silent sitting up right and soon | O |
| Past the casement behind him slanted the sinking moon | O |
| And rising for Olivet all stared between love and dread | G |
| Seeing the torrid moon a ruddy halo behind his head | G |
Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols
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