Dinah In Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEFE GEGE HEHE IJKJ LMLM ENEN HOHO PIQK EREE STSE EUEU VWVE SESE HEHEShe did not know that she was dead | A |
But when the pang was o'er | B |
Sat down to wait her Master's tread | A |
Upon the Golden Floor | C |
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With ears full cock and anxious eye | D |
Impatiently resigned | E |
But ignorant that Paradise | F |
Did not admit her kind | E |
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Persons with Haloes Harps and Wings | G |
Assembled and reproved | E |
Or talked to her of Heavenly things | G |
But Dinah never moved | E |
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There was one step along the Stair | H |
That led to Heaven's Gate | E |
And till she heard it her affair | H |
Was she explained to wait | E |
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And she explained with flattened ear | I |
Bared lip and milky tooth | J |
Storming against Ithuriel's Spear | K |
That only proved her truth | J |
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Sudden far down the Bridge of Ghosts | L |
That anxious spirits clomb | M |
She caught that step in all the hosts | L |
And knew that he had come | M |
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She left them wondering what to do | E |
But not a doubt had she | N |
Swifter than her own squeal she flew | E |
Across the Glassy Sea | N |
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Flushing the Cherubs every where | H |
And skidding as she ran | O |
She refuged under Peter's Chair | H |
And waited for her man | O |
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There spoke a Spirit out of the press | P |
'Said quot Have you any here | I |
That saved a fool from drunkenness | Q |
And a coward from his fear | K |
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quot That turned a soul from dark to day | E |
When other help was vain | R |
That snatched it from Wanhope and made | E |
A cur a man again quot | E |
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quot Enter and look quot said Peter then | S |
And set The Gate ajar | T |
quot If know aught of women and men | S |
I trow she is not far quot | E |
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quot Neither by virtue speech nor art | E |
Nor hope of grace to win | U |
But godless innocence of heart | E |
That never heard of sin | U |
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quot Neither by beauty nor belief | V |
Nor white example shown | W |
Something a wanton more a thief | V |
But most of all mine own quot | E |
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quot Enter and look quot said Peter then | S |
quot And send you well to speed | E |
But for all that I know of women and men | S |
Your riddle is hard to read quot | E |
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Then flew Dinah from under the Chair | H |
Into his arms she flew | E |
And licked his face from chin to hair | H |
And Peter passed them through | E |
Rudyard Kipling
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