Abraham Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDEFGHIJKLMNO| The rivulet loving wanderer Abraham | A |
| Through waterless wastes tracing his fields of pasture | B |
| Led his Chaldean herds and fattening flocks | C |
| With the meandering art of wavering water | B |
| That seeks and finds yet does not know its way | D |
| He came rested and prospered and went on | E |
| Scattering behind him little pastoral kingdoms | F |
| And over each one its own particular sky | G |
| Not the great rounded sky through which he journeyed | H |
| That went with him but when he rested changed | I |
| His mind was full of names | J |
| Learned from strange peoples speaking alien tongues | K |
| And all that was theirs one day he would inherit | L |
| He died content and full of years though still | M |
| The Promise had not come and left his bones | N |
| Far from his father's house in alien Canaan | O |
Edwin Muir
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