The Stars' Accusal Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CBBBBDDEDD BCFDDGHIDD JJJBBBJJJJBBDD JBJJBJJ JJJKLJJJEE| How can the makers of unrighteous wars | A |
| Stand the accusal of the watchful stars | B |
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| To stand | C |
| A dust speck facing the infinitudes | B |
| Of Thine unfathomable dome a night like this | B |
| To stand full face to Thy High Majesties | B |
| Thy myriad worlds in solemn watchfulness | B |
| Watching watching watching all below | D |
| And man in all his wilfulness for woe | D |
| Dear Lord one wonders that Thou bearest still | E |
| With man on whom Thou didst such grace bestow | D |
| And with his wilful faculty for woe | D |
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| Those sleepless sentinels They may be worlds | B |
| All peopled like our own But as I stand | C |
| They are to me the myriad eyes of God | F |
| Watching watching watching all below | D |
| And man in all his wilfulness for woe | D |
| And then to think | G |
| What those same piercing eyes look down upon | H |
| Elsewhere on this fair earth that Thou hast made | I |
| Watching watching watching all below | D |
| And man in all his wilfulness for woe | D |
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| On all the desolations he hath wrought | J |
| On all the passioned hatreds he hath taught | J |
| On all Thy great hopes he hath brought to nought | J |
| Man rending man with ruthless bitterness | B |
| Blasting Thine image into nothingness | B |
| Hounding Thy innocents to awful deaths | B |
| And worse than deaths Happy the dead who sped | J |
| Before the torturers their lust had fed | J |
| On Thy Christ crucified afresh each day | J |
| On all the horrors of War's grim red way | J |
| And ever in Thy solemn midnight skies | B |
| Those myriad sleepless vast accusing eyes | B |
| Watching watching watching all below | D |
| And man in all his wilfulness for woe | D |
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| Dear Lord | J |
| When in our troubled hearts we ponder this | B |
| We can but wonder at Thy wrath delayed | J |
| We can but wonder that Thy hand is stayed | J |
| We can but wonder at Thy sufferance | B |
| Of man whom Thou in Thine own image made | J |
| When he that image doth so sore degrade | J |
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| If Thou shouldst blot us out without a word | J |
| Our stricken souls must say we had incurred | J |
| Just punishment | J |
| Warnings we lacked not warnings oft and clear | K |
| But in our arrogance we gave no ear | L |
| To Thine admonishment | J |
| And yet and yet O Lord we humbly pray | J |
| Put back again Thy righteous Judgment Day | J |
| Have patience with us yet a while until | E |
| Through these our sufferings we learn Thy Will | E |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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