The Black Stones Of Iona Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAABBACDEDCE| Here on their knees men swore the stones were black | A |
| Black in the people's minds and words yet they | B |
| Were at that time as now in colour grey | B |
| But what is colour if upon the rack | A |
| Of conscience souls are placed by deeds that lack | A |
| Concord with oaths What differ night and day | B |
| Then when before the Perjured on his way | B |
| Hell opens and the heavens in vengeance crack | A |
| Above his head uplifted in vain prayer | C |
| To Saint or Fiend or to the Godhead whom | D |
| He had insulted Peasant King or Thane | E |
| Fly where the culprit may guilt meets a doom | D |
| And from invisible worlds at need laid bare | C |
| Come links for social order's awful chain | E |
William Wordsworth
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