Drifting Away: A Fragment Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCCBCB DEFECBCB GHCHC CICI CJ KC AL L H| Written for music to be sung at a parish industrial exhibition | A |
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| See the land her Easter keeping | B |
| Rises as her Maker rose | C |
| Seeds so long in darkness sleeping | B |
| Burst at last from winter snows | C |
| Earth with heaven above rejoices | C |
| Fields and gardens hail the spring | B |
| Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices | C |
| While the wild birds build and sing | B |
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| You to whom your Maker granted | D |
| Powers to those sweet birds unknown | E |
| Use the craft by God implanted | F |
| Use the reason not your own | E |
| Here while heaven and earth rejoices | C |
| Each his Easter tribute bring | B |
| Work of fingers chant of voices | C |
| Like the birds who build and sing | B |
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| Eversley | G |
| They drift away Ah God they drift for ever | H |
| I watch the stream sweep onward to the sea | C |
| Like some old battered buoy upon a roaring river | H |
| Round whom the tide waifs hang then drift to sea | C |
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| I watch them drift the old familiar faces | C |
| Who fished and rode with me by stream and wold | I |
| Till ghosts not men fill old beloved places | C |
| And ah the land is rank with churchyard mold | I |
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| I watch them drift the youthful aspirations | C |
| Shores landmarks beacons drift alike | J |
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| I watch them drift the poets and the statesmen | K |
| The very streams run upward from the sea | C |
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| Yet overhead the boundless arch of heaven | A |
| Still fades to night still blazes into day | L |
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| Ah God My God Thou wilt not drift away | L |
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| November | H |
Charles Kingsley
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