All Saints Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDCEFGAFDHBHG EGGGIJGJKKILMMMLNOOP PPPNIP GBDGFBFD| They are flocking from the East | A |
| And the West | B |
| They are flocking from the North | C |
| And the South | D |
| Every moment setting forth | C |
| From realm of snake or lion | E |
| Swamp or sand | F |
| Ice or burning | G |
| Greatest and least | A |
| Palm in hand | F |
| And praise in mouth | D |
| They are flocking up the path | H |
| To their rest | B |
| Up the path that hath | H |
| No returning | G |
| - | |
| Up the steeps of Zion | E |
| They are mounting | G |
| Coming coming | G |
| Throngs beyond man's counting | G |
| With a sound | I |
| Like innumerable bees | J |
| Swarming humming | G |
| Where flowering trees | J |
| Many tinted | K |
| Many scented | K |
| All alike abound | I |
| With honey | L |
| With a swell | M |
| Like a blast upswaying unrestrainable | M |
| From a shadowed dell | M |
| To the hill tops sunny | L |
| With a thunder | N |
| Like the ocean when in strength | O |
| Breadth and length | O |
| It sets to shore | P |
| More and more | P |
| Waves on waves redoubled pour | P |
| Leaping flashing to the shore | P |
| Unlike the under | N |
| Drain of ebb that loseth ground | I |
| For all its roar | P |
| - | |
| They are thronging | G |
| From the East and West | B |
| From the North and South | D |
| Saints are thronging loving longing | G |
| To their land | F |
| Of rest | B |
| Palm in hand | F |
| And praise in mouth | D |
Christina Rossetti
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