The Land Between Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDEFF AGAGHH IJKJLL DMDMNN| Between the little Here and larger Yonder | A |
| There is a realm or so one day I read | B |
| Where faithful spirits love enchained may wander | A |
| Till some remembering soul from earth has fled | B |
| Then reunited they go forth afar | C |
| From sphere to sphere where wondrous angels are | C |
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| Not many spirits in that realm are waiting | D |
| Not many pause upon its shores to rest | E |
| For only love intense and unabating | D |
| Can hold them from the longer higher quest | E |
| And after grief has wept itself to sleep | F |
| Few hearts on earth their vital memories keep | F |
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| Should I pass on across the mystic border | A |
| Let thy love link me to that pallid land | G |
| I would not seek the heavens of finer order | A |
| Until thy barque had left this coarser strand | G |
| How desolate such journeyings would be | H |
| Though straight to Him were they not shared by thee | H |
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| Wert thou first called dear God how could I bear it | I |
| I should enchain thee with my love I know | J |
| Not great enough am I to free thy spirit | K |
| From all these tender ties and bid thee go | J |
| Nor would a soul unselfish as thine own | L |
| Forget so soon and speed to heaven alone | L |
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| On earth we find no joy in ways diverging | D |
| How could we find it in the worlds unseen | M |
| I know old memories from my bosom surging | D |
| Would keep thee waiting in that Land Between | M |
| Until together side by side we trod | N |
| A path of stars in our great search for God | N |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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