Lost In The Mist Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED CFGHCIJI KLMHNAOA PKQKRSTJUVHWRXYX ZA2B2A2YLAH ZC2D2C2E2F2G2F2 LH2MH2AJI2J J2AK2AL2MM2J N2AO2AAWAW BJP2JCJP2J Q2R2QS2ET2SYJTHE thin white snow streaks pencilling | A |
That mountain's shoulder gray | B |
While in the west the pale green sky | A |
Smiled back the dawning day | B |
Till from the misty east the sun | C |
Was of a sudden born | D |
Like a new soul in Paradise | E |
How long it seems since morn | D |
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One little hour O round red sun | C |
And thou and I shall come | F |
Unto the golden gate of rest | G |
The open door of home | H |
One little hour O weary sun | C |
Delay the threatened eve | I |
Till my tired feet that pleasant door | J |
Enter and never leave | I |
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Ye rooks that fly in slender file | K |
Into the thick'ning gloom | L |
Ye'll scarce have reached your grim gray tower | M |
Ere I have reached my home | H |
Plover that thrills the solitude | N |
With such an eerie cry | A |
Seek you your nest ere night fall comes | O |
As my heart's nest seek I | A |
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O light light heart and heavy feet | P |
Patience a little while | K |
Keep the warm love light in these eyes | Q |
And on these lips the smile | K |
Out speed the mist the gathering mist | R |
That follows o'er the moor | S |
The darker grows the world without | T |
The brighter seems that door | J |
O door so close yet so far off | U |
O mist that nears and nears | V |
What shall I faint in sight of home | H |
Blinded but not with tears | W |
'T is but the mist the cruel mist | R |
Which chills this heart of mine | X |
These eyes too weak to see that light | Y |
It has not ceased to shine | X |
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A little further further yet | Z |
The white mist crawls and crawls | A2 |
It hems me around it shuts me in | B2 |
Its great sepulchral walls | A2 |
No earth no sky no path no light | Y |
A silence like the tomb | L |
O me it is too soon to die | A |
And I was going home | H |
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A little further further yet | Z |
My limbs are young my heart | C2 |
O heart it is not only life | D2 |
That feels it hard to part | C2 |
Poor lips slow freezing into calm | E2 |
Numbed hands that helpless fall | F2 |
And a mile off warm lips fond hands | G2 |
Waiting to welcome all | F2 |
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I see the pictures in the room | L |
The figures moving round | H2 |
The very flicker of the fire | M |
Upon the patterned ground | H2 |
O that I were the shepherd dog | A |
That guards their happy door | J |
Or even the silly household cat | I2 |
That basks upon the floor | J |
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O that I sat one minute's space | J2 |
Where I have sat so long | A |
O that I heard one little word | K2 |
Sweeter than angel's song | A |
A pause and then the table fills | L2 |
The harmless mirth brims o'er | M |
While I O can it be God's will | M2 |
I die outside the door | J |
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My body fails my desperate soul | N2 |
Struggles before it go | A |
The bleak air's full of voices wild | O2 |
But not the voice I know | A |
Dim shapes come wandering through the dark | A |
With mocking curious stares | W |
Faces long strange peer glimmering by | A |
But not one face of theirs | W |
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Lost lost and such a little way | B |
From that dear sheltering door | J |
Lost lost out of the loving arms | P2 |
Left empty evermore | J |
His will be done O gate of heaven | C |
Fairer than earthly door | J |
Receive me Everlasting arms | P2 |
Enfold me evermore | J |
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And so farewell | Q2 |
What is this touch | R2 |
Upon my closing eyes | Q |
My name too that I thought to hear | S2 |
Next time in Paradise | E |
Warm arms close lips O saved saved saved | T2 |
Across the deathly moor | S |
Sought found and yonder through the night | Y |
Shineth the blessed door | J |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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