The Choral Union Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCC DDEE FFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMHe 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 |
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'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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