The Search Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD AEAE FGFG HIHI JKJK LMLM NENE| The rain falls long and the rain falls light | A |
| With a desolate drip drop sad to hear | B |
| But never a star shines through the night | A |
| As I sit afar from the world anear | B |
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| Down in the parlour some one sings | C |
| The children laugh in the nursery hall | D |
| But my heart like a bird has spread its wings | C |
| And leaves the music and mirth and all | D |
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| Out in the rain and the eerie night | A |
| Into the darkness it speeds away | E |
| Ah me ah me 'tis a gruesome flight | A |
| Seeking for you till the dawn of day | E |
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| If it only knew which way to go | F |
| Where you wander or where you lie | G |
| To valleys of sunshine or hills of snow | F |
| Thither at once my heart would fly | G |
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| Fly and follow wherever you led | H |
| Over the desert and over the wave | I |
| Or if it found you lying dead | H |
| It would sit in the rain by your lonely grave | I |
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| Sit in the rain and cover the grass | J |
| With passionate kisses above your face | K |
| Sit there waiting till death should pass | J |
| And bear it to you in his strong embrace | K |
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| But hither and thither all is vain | L |
| It flies in the darkness and seeks for you | M |
| Back in the morning drenched with rain | L |
| The poor thing cometh with never a clue | M |
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| But all night long the rain falls down | N |
| Like a poor crazed thing that has lost its way | E |
| Through the forest and through the town | N |
| It searches for you till the break of day | E |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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