The Kingdom Of God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBBB CDCD CECE FGFG HIHI HJHJ| ' In no Strange Land ' | A |
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| O world invisible we view thee | B |
| O world intangible we touch thee | B |
| O world unknowable we know thee | B |
| Inapprehensible we clutch thee | B |
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| Does the fish soar to find the ocean | C |
| The eagle plunge to find the air | D |
| That we ask of the stars in motion | C |
| If they have rumour of thee there | D |
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| Not where the wheeling systems darken | C |
| And our benumbed conceiving soars | E |
| The drift of pinions would we hearken | C |
| Beats at our own clay shuttered doors | E |
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| The angels keep their ancient places | F |
| Turn but a stone and start a wing | G |
| 'Tis ye 'tis your estranged faces | F |
| That miss the many splendoured thing | G |
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| But when so sad thou canst not sadder | H |
| Cry and upon thy so sore loss | I |
| Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder | H |
| Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross | I |
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| Yea in the night my Soul my daughter | H |
| Cry clinging Heaven by the hems | J |
| And lo Christ walking on the water | H |
| Not of Gennesareth but Thames | J |
Francis Thompson
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