His Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEED FGGF HIIH JJ| ONCE from the world of living men | A |
| I passed by a strange fancy led | B |
| To a still City of the Dead | B |
| To call upon a citizen | C |
| He had been famous in his day | D |
| Much talked of written of and praised | E |
| For virtues my small soul amazed | E |
| And yet I thought his heart was clay | D |
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| He was too full of grace for me | F |
| His friends said on a marble stone | G |
| His soul sat somewhere near the Throne | G |
| I did not know I called to see | F |
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| His name and fame were on the door | H |
| A most superior tomb indeed | I |
| Much railed and gilt and filigreed | I |
| He occupied the lower floor | H |
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| I knocked a worm crawled from its hole | J |
| I looked and knew it for his soul | J |
Victor James Daley
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