And The Rains Descended And The Floods Came Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDD EFEFGG HIHIJ AKAKDDNOW the far waves roll nearer and more near | A |
The wind's awake the pitiless wind's awake | B |
It shrieks the menace that I dare not hear | C |
Soon at my feet the angry waves will break | B |
In desolating wrath and here I stand | D |
Helpless my house is built upon the sand | D |
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O you whose house upon a rock is set | E |
Laugh safe and sure at threatening wave and wind | F |
You chose the better part and yet and yet | E |
There was no other ground that I could find | F |
And I was weary and I longed to raise | G |
A house to guard my shivering nights and days | G |
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And it was pleasant in the house I made | H |
While still the floods and winds were held asleep | I |
I blessed it at the dawn at night I prayed | H |
As though its dear foundations had been deep | I |
Sunk in the rock I whispered in surmise | J |
'What if winds never wake floods never rise ' | - |
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And now the waves are near and very near | A |
And here I wait and wonder which may be | K |
The wave in which my house will disappear | A |
My little house that loved and sheltered me | K |
Where joy still sings her garland in her hand | D |
Built on the sand oh God built on the sand | D |
Edith Nesbit
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