Yearnings Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH DJKJI 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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