They Desire A Better Country Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCBBCCBDEFGFH A IJJIIJJIFKLKFL A HMMDDMMDNONPNP| I | A |
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| I would not if I could undo my past | B |
| Tho' for its sake my future is a blank | C |
| My past for which I have myself to thank | C |
| For all its faults and follies first and last | B |
| I would not cast anew the lot once cast | B |
| Or launch a second ship for one that sank | C |
| Or drug with sweets the bitterness I drank | C |
| Or break by feasting my perpetual fast | B |
| I would not if I could for much more dear | D |
| Is one remembrance than a hundred joys | E |
| More than a thousand hopes in jubilee | F |
| Dearer the music of one tearful voice | G |
| That unforgotten calls and calls to me | F |
| Follow me here rise up and follow here | H |
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| II | A |
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| What seekest thou far in the unknown land | I |
| In hope I follow joy gone on before | J |
| In hope and fear persistent more and more | J |
| As the dry desert lengthens out its sand | I |
| Whilst day and night I carry in my hand | I |
| The golden key to ope the golden door | J |
| Of golden home yet mine eye weepeth sore | J |
| For long the journey is that makes no stand | I |
| And who is this that veiled doth walk with thee | F |
| Lo this is Love that walketh at my right | K |
| One exile holds us both and we are bound | L |
| To selfsame home joys in the land of light | K |
| Weeping thou walkest with him weepeth he | F |
| Some sobbing weep some weep and make no sound | L |
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| III | A |
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| A dimness of a glory glimmers here | H |
| Thro' veils and distance from the space remote | M |
| A faintest far vibration of a note | M |
| Reaches to us and seems to bring us near | D |
| Causing our face to glow with braver cheer | D |
| Making the serried mist to stand afloat | M |
| Subduing languor with an antidote | M |
| And strengthening love almost to cast out fear | D |
| Till for one moment golden city walls | N |
| Rise looming on us golden walls of home | O |
| Light of our eyes until the darkness falls | N |
| Then thro' the outer darkness burdensome | P |
| I hear again the tender voice that calls | N |
| Follow me hither follow rise and come | P |
Christina Rossetti
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