Yearnings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DJKJ| I long for diviner regions | A |
| The spirit would reach its goal | B |
| Though this world hath surpassing beauty | C |
| It warreth against the soul | B |
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| There's a cloud in the eastern heaven | D |
| Beyond it a cold gray sky | E |
| But I know that the sun's rare radiance | F |
| Will brighten it by and by | E |
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| In the fane of my soul is glowing | G |
| The joy of a hope to come | H |
| That will touch with its Memnon finger | I |
| The lips that are cold and dumb | H |
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| Till illumed by the smile of heaven | D |
| And blest with a purer life | J |
| Will the gloom that o'ershades my spirit | K |
| Depart like a vanquished strife | J |
Charles Sangster
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