The Choral Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FFGGHHIIJJKK LLMM| He staggered in from night and frost and fog | A |
| And lampless streets he'd guzzled like a hog | A |
| And drunk till he was dazed And now he came | B |
| To hear he couldn't call to mind the name | B |
| But he'd been given a ticket for the show | C |
| And thought he'd hiccup chance his luck and go | C |
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| The hall swam in his eyes and soaring light | D |
| Was dazzling splendid after the dank night | D |
| He sat and blinked safe in his cushioned seat | E |
| And licked his lips he'd like a brandy neat | E |
| - | |
| 'Who is the King of Glory ' they were saying | F |
| He pricked his ears what was it Were they praying | F |
| By God it might be Heaven For singers stood | G |
| Ranked in pure white and everyone seemed good | G |
| And clergymen were sitting meekly round | H |
| With joyful faces drinking in the sound | H |
| And holy women and plump whiskered men | I |
| Could this be Heaven And was he dead And then | I |
| They all stood up the mighty chorus broke | J |
| In storms of song above those blameless folk | J |
| And 'Hallelujah Hallelujah ' rang | K |
| The burden of the triumph that they sang | K |
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| He gasped it must be true he'd got to Heaven | L |
| With all his sins that seventy times were seven | L |
| And whispering 'Hallelujah' mid their shout | M |
| He wondered when Lord God would turn him out | M |
Siegfried Sassoon
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