Looking East Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB ACAC ADAD EFGF AHAH IJIJ DKDK ELEL MNMN MOMO PQPR ADAD| LITTLE white clouds why are you flying | A |
| Over the sky so blue and cold | B |
| Fair faint hopes why are you lying | A |
| Over my heart like a white cloud's fold | B |
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| Slender green leaves why are you peeping | A |
| Out of the ground where the snow yet lies | C |
| Toying west wind why are you creeping | A |
| Like a child's breath across my eyes | C |
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| Hope and terror by turns consuming | A |
| Lover and friend put far from me | D |
| What should I do with the bright spring coming | A |
| Like an angel over the sea | D |
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| Over the cruel sea that parted | E |
| Me from mine own and rolls between | F |
| Out of the woful east whence darted | G |
| Heaven's full quiver of vengeance keen | F |
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| Day teaches day night whispers morning | A |
| 'Hundreds are weeping their dead while thou | H |
| Weeping thy living Rise be adorning | A |
| Thy brows unwidowed with smiles ' But how | H |
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| O had he married me unto anguish | I |
| Hardship sickness peril and pain | J |
| That on my breast his head might languish | I |
| In lonely jungle or scorching plain | J |
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| O had we stood on some rampart gory | D |
| Till he ere Horror behind us trod | K |
| Kissed me and killed me so with his glory | D |
| My soul went happy and pure to God | K |
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| Nay nay Heaven pardon me me sick hearted | E |
| Living this long long life in death | L |
| Many there are far wider parted | E |
| Who under one roof tree breathe one breath | L |
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| But we that loved whom one word half broken | M |
| Had drawn together close soul to soul | N |
| As lip to lip and it was not spoken | M |
| Nor may be while the world's ages roll | N |
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| I sit me down with my tears all frozen | M |
| I drink my cup be it gall or wine | O |
| For I know if he lives I am his chosen | M |
| I know if he dies that he is mine | O |
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| If love in its silence be greater stronger | P |
| Than million promises sighs or tears | Q |
| I will wait upon Him a little longer | P |
| Who holdeth the balance of our years | R |
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| Little white clouds like angels flying | A |
| Bring the spring with you across the sea | D |
| Loving or losing living or dying | A |
| Lord remember remember me | D |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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