On The Cliff-top Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCAD EEFFGG HHIIJJ KKLLMM NNOOPQ| FACE upward to the sky | A |
| Quiet I lie | A |
| Quiet as if the finger of God's will | B |
| Had bade this human mechanism 'be still ' | C |
| And sent the intangible essence this strange I | A |
| All wondering forth to His eternity | D |
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| Below the sea's sound faint | E |
| As dying saint | E |
| Telling of gone by sorrows long at rest | F |
| Above the fearless sea gull's shimmering breast | F |
| Painted a moment on the dark blue skies | G |
| A hovering joy that while I watch it flies | G |
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| Alike unheeded now | H |
| Old griefs and thou | H |
| Quick wing d Joy that like a bird at play | I |
| Pleasest thyself to visit me to day | I |
| On the cliff top earth dim and heaven clear | J |
| My soul lies calmly above hope or fear | J |
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| But not do Thou forbid | K |
| Whose stainless lid | K |
| Wept tears at Lazarus' grave and looking down | L |
| Afar off upon Solyma's doomed town | L |
| Ah not above love human yet divine | M |
| Which Thee seen first in Thee sees all of Thine | M |
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| Is't sunset The keen breeze | N |
| Blows from the seas | N |
| And at my side a pleasant vision stands | O |
| With her brown eyes and kind extended hands | O |
| Dear we'll go down together and full fain | P |
| From the cliff top to the busy world again | Q |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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