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From House To Home Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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The first was like a dream through summer heat	A
The second like a tedious numbing swoon	B
While the half frozen pulses lagged to beat	A
Beneath a winter moon	B
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But says my friend what was this thing and where	C
It was a pleasure place within my soul	D
An earthly paradise supremely fair	C
That lured me from the goal	D
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The first part was a tissue of hugged lies	E
The second was its ruin fraught with pain	F
Why raise the fair delusion to the skies	E
But to be dashed again	G
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My castle stood of white transparent glass	H
Glittering and frail with many a fretted spire	I
But when the summer sunset came to pass	H
It kindled into fire	J
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My pleasaunce was an undulating green	K
Stately with trees whose shadows slept below	L
With glimpses of smooth garden beds between	K
Like flame or sky or snow	L
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Swift squirrels on the pastures took their ease	M
With leaping lambs safe from the unfeared knife	N
All singing birds rejoicing in those trees	M
Fulfilled their careless life	N
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Wood pigeons cooed there stock doves nestled there	C
My trees were full of songs and flowers and fruit	O
Their branches spread a city to the air	C
And mice lodged in their root	O
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My heath lay farther off where lizards lived	P
In strange metallic mail just spied and gone	Q
Like darted lightnings here and there perceived	R
But nowhere dwelt upon	S
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Frogs and fat toads were there to hop or plod	T
And propagate in peace an uncouth crew	U
Where velvet headed rushes rustling nod	T
And spill the morning dew	U
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All caterpillars throve beneath my rule	V
With snails and slugs in corners out of sight	W
I never marred the curious sudden stool	V
That perfects in a night	W
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Safe in his excavated gallery	X
The burrowing mole groped on from year to year	Y
No harmless hedgehog curled because of me	X
His prickly back for fear	Y
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Ofttimes one like an angel walked with me	X
With spirit discerning eyes like flames of fire	J
But deep as the unfathomed endless sea	X
Fulfilling my desire	J
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And sometimes like a snowdrift he was fair	C
And sometimes like a sunset glorious red	Z
And sometimes he had wings to scale the air	C
With aureole round his head	Z
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We sang our songs together by the way	A2
Calls and recalls and echoes of delight	W
So communed we together all the day	A2
And so in dreams by night	W
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I have no words to tell what way we walked	B2
What unforgotten path now closed and sealed	C2
I have no words to tell all things we talked	B2
All things that he revealed	C2
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This only can I tell that hour by hour	J
I waxed more feastful lifted up and glad	D2
I felt no thorn prick when I plucked a flower	J
Felt not my friend was sad	D2
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To morrow once I said to him with smiles	E2
To night he answered gravely and was dumb	F2
But pointed out the stones that numbered miles	E2
And miles and miles to come	F2
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Not so I said to morrow shall be sweet	A
To night is not so sweet as coming days	G2
Then first I saw that he had turned his feet	A
Had turned from me his face	H2
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Running and flying miles and miles he went	I2
But once looked back to beckon with his hand	J2
And cry Come home O love from banishment	K2
Come to the distant land	J2
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That night destroyed me like an avalanche	L2
One night turned all my summer back to snow	L
Next morning not a bird upon my branch	L2
Not a lamb woke below	L
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No bird no lamb no living breathing thing	M2
No squirrel scampered on my breezy lawn	Q
No mouse lodged by his hoard all joys took wing	M2
And fled before that dawn	Q
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Azure and sun were starved from heaven above	N2
No dew had fallen but biting frost lay hoar	O2
O love I knew that I should meet my love	N2
Should find my love no more	O2
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My love no more I muttered stunned with pain	F
I shed no tear I wrung no passionate hand	J2
Till something whispered You shall meet again	G
Meet in a distant land	J2
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Then with a cry like famine I arose	P2
I lit my candle searched from room to room	Q2
Searched up and down a war of winds that froze	P2
Swept through the blank of gloom	Q2
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I searched day after day night after night	W
Scant change there came to me of night or day	A2
No more I wailed no more and trimmed my light	W
And gnashed but did not pray	A2
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Until my heart broke and my spirit broke	R2
Upon the frost bound floor I stumbled fell	S2
And moaned It is enough withhold the stroke	R2
Farewell O love farewell	S2
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Then life swooned from me And I heard the song	T2
Of spheres and spirits rejoicing over me	X
One cried Our sister she hath suffered long	T2
One answered Make her see	X
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One cried O blessed she who no more pain	F
Who no more disappointment shall receive	U2
One answered Not so she must live again	G
Strengthen thou her to live	V2
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So while I lay entranced a curtain seemed	W2
To shrivel with crackling from before my face	H2
Across mine eyes a waxing radiance beamed	W2
And showed a certain place	H2
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I saw a vision of a woman where	C
Night and new morning strive for domination	X2
Incomparably pale and almost fair	C
And sad beyond expression	X2
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Her eyes were like some fire enshrining gem	Y2
Were stately like the stars and yet were tender	J
Her figure charmed me like a windy stem	Y2
Quivering and drooped and slender	J
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I stood upon the outer barren ground	Z2
She stood on inner ground that budded flowers	A3
While circling in their never slackening round	Z2
Danced by the mystic hours	A3
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But every flower was lifted on a thorn	B3
And every thorn shot upright from its sands	C3
To gall her feet hoarse laughter pealed in scorn	B3
With cruel clapping hands	C3
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She bled and wept yet did not shrink her strength	D3
Was strung up until daybreak of delight	W
She measured measureless sorrow toward its length	D3
And breadth and depth and height	W
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Then marked I how a chain sustained her form	E3
A chain of living links not made nor riven	X2
It stretched sheer up through lightning wind and storm	E3
And anchored fast in heaven	X2
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One cried How long yet founded on the Rock	F3
She shall do battle suffer and attain	F
One answered Faith quakes in the tempest shock	F3
Strengthen her soul again	G
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I saw a cup sent down and come to her	J
Brimful of loathing and of bitterness	G3
She drank with livid lips that seemed to stir	J
The depth not make it less	H3
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But as she drank I spied a hand distil	I3
New wine and virgin honey making it	J3
First bitter sweet then sweet indeed until	I3
She tasted only sweet	A
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Her lips and cheeks waxed rosy fresh and young	K3
Drinking she sang My soul shall nothing want	L3
And drank anew while soft a song was sung	K3
A mystical slow chant	M3
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One cried The wounds are faithful of a friend	N3
The wilderness shall blossom as a rose	P2
One answered Rend the veil declare the end	N3
Strengthen her ere she goes	P2
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Then earth and heaven were rolled up like a scroll	D
Time and space change and death had passed away	A2
Weight number measure each had reached its whole	D
The day had come that day	A2
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Multitudes multitudes stood up in bliss	O3
Made equal to the angels glorious fair	C
With harps palms wedding garments kiss of peace	P3
And crowned and haloed hair	C
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They sang a song a new song in the height	W
Harping with harps to Him Who is Strong and True	U
They drank new wine their eyes saw with new light	W
Lo all things were made new	U
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Tier beyond tier they rose and rose and rose	P2
So high that it was dreadful flames with flames	Q3
No man could number them no tongue disclose	P2
Their secret sacred names	Q3
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As though one pulse stirred all one rush of blood	R3
Fed all one breath swept through them myriad voiced	S3
They struck their harps cast down their crowns they stood	T3
And worshipped and rejoiced	S3
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Each face looked one way like a moon new lit	J3
Each face looked one way towards its Sun of Love	N2
Drank love and bathed in love and mirrored it	J3
And knew no end thereof	N2
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Glory touched glory on each blessed head	Z
Hands locked dear hands never to sunder more	O2
These were the new begotten from the dead	Z
Whom the great birthday bore	O2
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Heart answered heart soul answered soul at rest	U3
Double against each other filled sufficed	V3
All loving loved of all but loving best	U3
And best beloved of Christ	V3
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I saw that one who lost her love in pain	F
Who trod on thorns who drank the loathsome cup	W3
The lost in night in day was found again	G
The fallen was lifted up	W3
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They stood together in the blessed noon	B
They sang together through the length of days	G2
Each loving face bent Sunwards like a moon	B
New lit with love and praise	G2
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Therefore O friend I would not if I might	W
Rebuild my house of lies wherein I joyed	W
One time to dwell my soul shall walk in white	W
Cast down but not destroyed	W
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Therefore in patience I possess my soul	D
Yea therefore as a flint I set my face	H2
To pluck down to build up again the whole	D
But in a distant place	H2
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These thorns are sharp yet I can tread on them	Y2
This cup is loathsome yet He makes it sweet	W
My face is steadfast toward Jerusalem	F2
My heart remembers it	W
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I lift the hanging hands the feeble knees	M
I precious more than seven times molten gold	W
Until the day when from His storehouses	X3
God shall bring new and old	W
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Beauty for ashes oil of joy for grief	Y3
Garment of praise for spirit of heaviness	X3
Although to day I fade as doth a leaf	Y3
I languish and grow less	X3
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Although to day He prunes my twigs with pain	F
Yet doth His blood nourish and warm my root	W
To morrow I shall put forth buds again	G
And clothe myself with fruit	W
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Although to day I walk in tedious ways	X3
To day His staff is turned into a rod	W
Yet will I wait for Him the appointed days	X3
And stay upon my God	W