Until The Day Break Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDADD EFEFF GHGHH IJIJJ IHIHHWhen will the day bring its pleasure | A |
When will the night bring its rest | B |
Reaper and gleaner and thresher | A |
Peer toward the east and the west | B |
The Sower He knoweth and He knoweth best | B |
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Meteors flash forth and expire | C |
Northern lights kindle and pale | D |
These are the days of desire | A |
Of eyes looking upward that fail | D |
Vanishing days as a finishing tale | D |
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Bows down the crop in its glory | E |
Tenfold fifty fold hundred fold | F |
The millet is ripened and hoary | E |
The wheat ears are ripened to gold | F |
Why keep us waiting in dimness and cold | F |
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The Lord of the harvest He knoweth | G |
Who knoweth the first and the last | H |
The Sower Who patiently soweth | G |
He scanneth the present and past | H |
He saith What thou hast what remaineth hold fast | H |
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Yet Lord o'er Thy toil wearied weepers | I |
The storm clouds hang muttering and frown | J |
On threshers and gleaners and reapers | I |
O Lord of the harvest look down | J |
Oh for the harvest the shout and the crown | J |
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Not so saith the Lord of the reapers | I |
The Lord of the first and the last | H |
O My toilers My weary My weepers | I |
What ye have what remaineth hold fast | H |
Hide in My heart till the vengeance be past | H |
Christina Georgina Rossetti
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