Our Guardian Angels And Their Children Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHDH IJKJ LDDD MNMN OPQP RSTS UUDU VWXW DYUY UZA2Z MB2C2B2 MDD2D| Where a river roars in rapids | A |
| And doves in maples fret | B |
| Where peace has decked the pastures | C |
| Our guardian angels met | B |
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| Long they had sought each other | D |
| In God's mysterious name | E |
| Had climbed the solemn chaos tides | F |
| Alone with hope aflame | E |
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| Amid the demon deeps had wound | G |
| By many a fearful way | H |
| As they beheld each other | D |
| Their shout made glad the day | H |
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| No need of purse delayed them | I |
| No hand of friend or kin | J |
| Nor menace of the bell and book | K |
| Nor fear of mortal sin | J |
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| You did not speak my girl | L |
| At this our parting hour | D |
| Long we held each other | D |
| And watched their deeds of power | D |
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| They made a curious Eden | M |
| We saw that it was good | N |
| We thought with them in unison | M |
| We proudly understood | N |
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| Their amaranth eternal | O |
| Their roses strange and fair | P |
| The asphodels they scattered | Q |
| Upon the living air | P |
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| They built a house of clouds | R |
| With skilled immortal hands | S |
| They entered through the silver doors | T |
| Their wings were wedded brands | S |
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| I labored up the valley | U |
| To granite mountains free | U |
| You hurried down the river | D |
| To Zidon by the sea | U |
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| But at their place of meeting | V |
| They keep a home and shrine | W |
| Your angel twists a purple flax | X |
| Then weaves a mantle fine | W |
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| My angel her defender | D |
| Upstanding spreads the light | Y |
| On painted clouds of fancy | U |
| And mists that touch the height | Y |
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| Their sturdy babes speak kindly | U |
| And fly and run with joy | Z |
| Shepherding the helpless lambs | A2 |
| A Grecian girl and boy | Z |
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| These children visit Heaven | M |
| Each year and make of worth | B2 |
| All we planned and wrought in youth | C2 |
| And all our tears on earth | B2 |
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| From books our God has written | M |
| They sing of high desire | D |
| They turn the leaves in gentleness | D2 |
| Their wings are folded fire | D |
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