Through The Door. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFE GHIJKLML NOPQRSTS UVWVXRYR WZXZA2B2C2B2 D2E2F2E2G2H2I2J2 K2IL2IGM2B2M2 N2O2YO2P2EYE| The angel opened the door | A |
| A little way | B |
| And she vanished as melts a star | C |
| Into the day | B |
| And for just a second's space | D |
| Ere the bar he drew | E |
| The pitying angel paused | F |
| And we looked through | E |
| - | |
| What did we see within | G |
| Ah who can tell | H |
| What glory and glow of light | I |
| Ineffable | J |
| What peace in the very air | K |
| What hush and calm | L |
| Soothing each tired soul | M |
| Like healing balm | L |
| - | |
| Was it a dream we dreamed | N |
| Or did we hear | O |
| The harping of silver harps | P |
| Divinely clear | Q |
| A murmur of that new song | R |
| Which soft and low | S |
| The happy angels sing | T |
| Sing as they go | S |
| - | |
| And as in the legend old | U |
| The good monk heard | V |
| As he paced his cloister dim | W |
| A heavenly bird | V |
| And rapt and lost in the joy | X |
| Of the wondrous song | R |
| Listened a hundred years | Y |
| Nor deemed them long | R |
| - | |
| So chained in sense and limb | W |
| All blind with sun | Z |
| We stood and tasted the joy | X |
| Of our vanished one | Z |
| And we took no note of time | A2 |
| Till soon or late | B2 |
| The gentle angel sighed | C2 |
| And shut the gate | B2 |
| - | |
| The vision is closed and sealed | D2 |
| We are come back | E2 |
| To the old accustomed earth | F2 |
| The well worn track | E2 |
| Back to the daily toil | G2 |
| The daily pain | H2 |
| But we never can be the same | I2 |
| Never again | J2 |
| - | |
| We who have bathed in noon | K2 |
| All radiant white | I |
| Shall we come back content | L2 |
| To sit in night | I |
| Content with self and sin | G |
| The stain the blot | M2 |
| To have stood so near the gate | B2 |
| And enter not | M2 |
| - | |
| O glimpse so swift so sweet | N2 |
| So soon withdrawn | O2 |
| Stay with us light our dusks | Y |
| Till day shall dawn | O2 |
| Until the shadows flee | P2 |
| And to our view | E |
| Again the gate unbars | Y |
| And we pass through | E |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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