Angelus. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBC DEFGHIH JKLKMKM NOACPCP| Softly drops the crimson sun | A |
| Softly down from overhead | B |
| Drop the bell notes one by one | A |
| Melting in the melting red | B |
| Sign to angel bands unsleeping | C |
| Day is done the dark is dread | B |
| Take the world in care and keeping | C |
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| Set the white robed sentries close | D |
| Wrap our want and weariness | E |
| In the surety of repose | F |
| Let the shining presences | G |
| Bearing fragrance on their wings | H |
| Stand about our beds to bless | I |
| Fright away all evil things | H |
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| Rays of Him whose shadow pours | J |
| Through all lives a brimming glory | K |
| Float o'er darksome woods and moors | L |
| Float above the billows hoary | K |
| Shine through night and storm and sin | M |
| Tangled fate and bitter story | K |
| Guide the lost and wandering in | M |
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| Now the last red ray is gone | N |
| Now the twilight shadows hie | O |
| Still the bell notes one by one | A |
| Send their soft voice to the sky | C |
| Praying as with human lip | P |
| Angels hasten night is nigh | C |
| Take us to thy guardianship | P |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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