My Guardian Angel Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGFGF FHFHGFGFWhen looking back I dimly see | A |
The trails my feet have trod | B |
Some hand divine it seems to me | A |
Has pulled the strings with God | B |
Some angel form has lifeward leaned | C |
When hope for me was past | D |
Some love sublime has intervened | C |
To save me at the last | D |
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For look you I was born a fool | E |
Damnation was my fate | F |
My lot to drivel and to drool | E |
Egregious and frutrate | F |
But in the deep of my despair | G |
When dark my doom was writ | F |
Some saving hand was always there | G |
to pull me from the Pit | F |
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A Guardian Angel how absurd | F |
I scoff at Power Divine | H |
And yet a someone spoke the word | F |
That willed me from the swine | H |
And yet despite my scorn of prayer | G |
My lack of love or friend | F |
I know a Presence will be there | G |
To save me at the end | F |
Robert William Service
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