When He Comes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEFFGG HHFIIF JJJJJJKKJJBB LL| When He comes | A |
| My sweetest 'When' | B |
| C ROSSETTI | C |
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| Thus may it be I thought at some day's close | D |
| Some lilac haunted eve when every rose | E |
| Breathes forth its incense May He find me there | F |
| In holy leisure lifting hands of prayer | F |
| In some sweet garden place | G |
| To catch the first dear wonder of His Face | G |
| - | |
| Or in my room above | H |
| In silent meditation of His love | H |
| My soul illumined with a rapture rare | F |
| It would be sweet if even then these eyes | I |
| Might glimpse Him coming in the Eastern skies | I |
| And be caught up to meet Him in the air | F |
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| But now Ah now the days | J |
| Rush by their hurrying ways | J |
| No longer know I vague imaginings | J |
| For every hour has wings | J |
| Yet my heart watches as I work I say | J |
| All simply to Him Come And if to day | J |
| Then wilt Thou find me thus just as I am | K |
| Tending my household stirring gooseberry jam | K |
| Or swiftly rinsing tiny vests and hose | J |
| With puzzled forehead patching some one's clothes | J |
| Guiding small footsteps swift to hear and run | B |
| From early dawn till setting of the sun | B |
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| And whensoe'er He comes I'll rise and go | L |
| Yes all the gladlier that He found me so | L |
Fay Inchfawn
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