The Voice Calling Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCD EEFGGF AAHIIJ KKLMNO PPQR Q ASTTS PPTUUT PPVWWXIN the hush of April weather | A |
With the bees in budding heather | A |
And the white clouds floating floating and the sunshine falling broad | B |
While my children down the hill | C |
Run and leap and I sit still | C |
Through the silence through the silence art Thou calling O my God | D |
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Through my husband's voice that prayeth | E |
Though he knows not what he sayeth | E |
Is it Thou who in Thy Holy Word hast solemn words for me | F |
And when he clasps me fast | G |
And smiles fondly o'er the past | G |
And talks hopeful of the future Lord do I hear only Thee | F |
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Not in terror nor in thunder | A |
Comes Thy voice although it sunder | A |
Flesh from spirit soul from body human bliss from human pain | H |
All the work that was to do | I |
All the joys so sweet and new | I |
Which Thou shewed'st me in a vision Moses like and hid'st again | J |
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From this Pisgah lying humbled | K |
The long desert where I stumbled | K |
And the fair plains I shall never reach seem equal clear and far | L |
On this mountain top of ease | M |
Thou wilt bury me in peace | N |
While my tribes march onward unto Canaan and war | O |
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In my boy's loud laughter ringing | P |
In the sigh more soft than singing | P |
Of my baby girl that nestles up unto this mortal breast | Q |
After every voice most dear | R |
Comes a whisper 'Rest not here ' | - |
And the rest Thou art preparing is it best Lord is it best | Q |
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'Lord a little little longer ' | - |
Sobs the earth love growing stronger | A |
He will miss me and go mourning through his solitary days | S |
And heaven were scarcely heaven | T |
If these lambs which Thou hast given | T |
Were to slip out of our keeping and be lost in the world's ways | S |
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Lord it is not fear of dying | P |
Nor an impious denying | P |
Of Thy will which forevermore on earth in heaven be done | T |
But the love that desperate clings | U |
Unto these my precious things | U |
In the beauty of the daylight and the glory of the sun | T |
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Ah Thou still art calling calling | P |
With a soft voice unappalling | P |
And it vibrates in far circles through the everlasting years | V |
When Thou knockest even so | W |
I will arise and go | W |
What m little ones more violets Nay be patient mother hears | X |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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