De Profundis. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCAA AADEEEAA AABFFGGAA AABHHHDDDAA| Turn thine eyes from me Angel of Heaven | A |
| Read not my soul Angel of Heaven | A |
| Sorrow is steeping my pale cheeks with weeping | B |
| Evermore keeping her wand on my heart | C |
| On my cold stony heart while the tear fountains start | C |
| To purge it from leaven too sinful for Heaven | A |
| Read not my soul yet Angel of Heaven | A |
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| Why hast thou ta'en her Angel of Heaven | A |
| Ta'en her so soon Angel of Heaven | A |
| Yearning to gain her hast thou thus slain her | D |
| Ere sin could stain her borne her away | E |
| Borne her far far away into eternal day | E |
| Left me alone to stay left me to weep and pray | E |
| Why hast thou ta'en her Angel of Heaven | A |
| Ta'en her so soon Angel of Heaven | A |
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| Shines the place brighter Angel of Heaven | A |
| Brighter for her Angel of Heaven | A |
| Comes there not streaming into my dreaming | B |
| At morning's beaming rays more divine | F |
| Rays from her soul divine rays giving strength to mine | F |
| Shines she not radiantly over the skies | G |
| Over the morning skies ere the Earth vapours rise | G |
| 'Twixt me and Paradise Angel of Heaven | A |
| Her blessed Paradise Angel of Heaven | A |
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| Turn thine eyes to me Angel of Heaven | A |
| Search through and through me Angel of Heaven | A |
| Read my soul's yearning wild endlessly burning | B |
| Tumultuously spurning Fate's bitter decree | H |
| Fate's tyrannic decree that tore her from me | H |
| Bore her from me to Eternity | H |
| Merciless Reaper no more shalt thou keep her | D |
| From fond eyes that weep her for ever and ever | D |
| Vain thine endeavour our spirits to sever | D |
| Take my soul with thee Angel of Heaven | A |
| Bear me unto her Angel of Heaven | A |
Walter R. Cassels
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