The Home Of The Spirit Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDEDF GHGHEIE JKJKLEL MCMCNKOPN Q| Answer me burning stars of night | A |
| Where is the spirit gone | B |
| That past the reach of human sight | A |
| As a swift breeze hath flown | C |
| And the stars answer'd me 'We roll | D |
| In light and power on high | E |
| But of the never dying soul | D |
| Ask that which cannot die ' | F |
| - | |
| O many toned and chainless wind | G |
| Thou art a wanderer free | H |
| Tell me if thou its place canst find | G |
| Far over mount and sea | H |
| And the wind murmur'd in reply | E |
| 'The blue deep I have cross'd | I |
| And met its barks and billows high | E |
| But not what thou hast lost ' | - |
| - | |
| Ye clouds that gorgeously repose | J |
| Around the setting sun | K |
| Answer Have ye a home for those | J |
| Whose earthly race is run | K |
| The bright clouds answer'd 'We depart | L |
| We vanish from the sky | E |
| Ask what is deathless in thy heart | L |
| For that which cannot die ' | - |
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| Speak then thou voice of God within | M |
| Thou of the deep low tone | C |
| Answer me through life's restless din | M |
| Where is the spirit flown | C |
| And the voice answer'd 'Be thou still | N |
| Enough to know is given | K |
| Clouds winds and stars | O |
| their | P |
| part fulfil | N |
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| Thine | Q |
| is to trust in Heaven ' | - |
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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