Until The Day Break Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABB CDADD EFEFF GHGHH IJIJJ IHIHH| When 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 Rossetti
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