His Soul Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEED FGGF HIIH JJONCE 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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