My Heaven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG IEEI JKKJ| Unhoused in deserts of accepted thought | A |
| And lost in jungles of confusing creeds | B |
| My soul strayed homeless finding its own needs | B |
| Unsatisfied with what tradition taught | A |
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| The pros and cons the little ifs and ands | C |
| The but and maybe and the this and that | D |
| On which the churches thicken and grow fat | D |
| I found but structures built on shifting sands | C |
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| And all their heavens were strange and far away | E |
| And all their hells were made of human hate | F |
| And since for death I did not care to wait | F |
| A heaven I fashioned for myself one day | E |
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| Of happy thoughts I built it stone by stone | G |
| With joy of life I draped each spacious room | H |
| With love's great light I drove away all gloom | H |
| And in the centre I made God a throne | G |
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| And this dear heaven I set within my heart | I |
| And carried it about with me alway | E |
| And then the changing dogmas of the day | E |
| Seemed alien to my thoughts and held no part | I |
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| Now as I take my heaven from place to place | J |
| I find new rooms by love's revealing light | K |
| And death will give me but a larger sight | K |
| To see my palace spreading into space | J |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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