The Home Of Peace Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEE FFGH IIII JJII AAII KKLL KKDDTrust and treachery wisdom folly | A |
Madness mirth and melancholy | A |
Love and hatred thrift and pillage | B |
All are housed in every village | C |
And in such a world s mixed being | D |
Where may peace from ruin fleeing | D |
Find fit shelter and inherit | E |
All the calm of her own merit | E |
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In a bark of gentle motion | F |
Sailing on the summer ocean | F |
There worst war the tempest wages | G |
And the hungry whirlpool rages | H |
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In some lonely new world bower | I |
Hidden like a forest flower | I |
There too there to fray the stranger | I |
Stalks the wild eyed savage danger | I |
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In some Alpine cot by fountains | J |
Flowing from snow shining mountains | J |
There the avalanches thunder | I |
Crushing all that lieth under | I |
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In some hermit tent pitched lowly | A |
Mid the tombs of prophets holy | A |
There to harry and annoy her | I |
Roams the infidel destroyer | I |
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In palatial chambers gilded | K |
Guarded round with towers high builded | K |
Change may enter these to morrow | L |
And with change may enter sorrow | L |
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Find O peace thy home of beauty | K |
In the steadfast heart of duty | K |
Dwelling ever there and seeing | D |
God through every phase of being | D |
Charles Harpur
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