The Blind Man Of Salisbury Cathedral. (from The Villager's Verse-book.) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBACDEFEFGGHEEHIIJJ| There is a poor blind man who every day | A |
| In summer sunshine or in winter's rain | B |
| Duly as tolls the bell to the high fane | B |
| Explores with faltering footsteps his dark way | A |
| To kneel before his Maker and to hear | C |
| The chaunted service pealing full and clear | D |
| Ask why alone in the same spot he kneels | E |
| Through the long year Oh the wide world is cold | F |
| As dark to him Here he no longer feels | E |
| His sad bereavement Faith and Hope uphold | F |
| His heart he feels not he is poor and blind | G |
| Amid the unpitying tumult of his mind | G |
| As through the aisles the choral anthems roll | H |
| His soul is in the choirs above the skies | E |
| And songs far off of angel companies | E |
| When this dim earth hath perished like a scroll | H |
| Oh happy if the rich the vain the proud | I |
| The plumed actors in life's motley crowd | I |
| Since pride is dust and life itself a span | J |
| Would learn one lesson from a poor blind man | J |
William Lisle Bowles
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