How I Walked Alone In The Jungles Of Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK FMNM OPQP RSPS TQUQ| Oh once I walked in Heaven all alone | A |
| Upon the sacred cliffs above the sky | B |
| God and the angels and the gleaming saints | C |
| Had journeyed out into the stars to die | B |
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| They had gone forth to win far citizens | D |
| Bought at great price bring happiness for all | E |
| By such a harvest make a holier town | F |
| And put new life within old Zion's wall | E |
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| Each chose a far off planet for his home | G |
| Speaking of love and mercy truth and right | H |
| Envied and cursed thorn crowned and scourged in time | I |
| Each tasted death on his appointed night | H |
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| Then resurrection day from sphere to sphere | J |
| Sped on with all the POWERS arisen again | K |
| While with them came in clouds recruited hosts | L |
| Of sun born strangers and of earth born men | K |
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| And on that day gray prophet saints went down | F |
| And poured atoning blood upon the deep | M |
| Till every warrior of old Hell flew free | N |
| And all the torture fires were laid asleep | M |
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| And Hell's lost company I saw return | O |
| Clear eyed with plumes of white the demons bold | P |
| Climbed with the angels now on Jacob's stair | Q |
| And built a better Zion than the old | P |
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| And yet I walked alone on azure cliffs | R |
| A lifetime long and loved each untrimmed vine | S |
| The rotted harps the swords of rusted gold | P |
| The jungles of all Heaven then were mine | S |
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| Oh mesas and throne mountains that I found | T |
| Oh strange and shaking thoughts that touched me there | Q |
| Ere I beheld the bright returning wings | U |
| That came to spoil my secret silent lair | Q |
Vachel Lindsay
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