A Pastoral Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBA DEFFGD HIJJII KLMMLK INOONI PQRRQP ISTTSI UPVVPU| Nature feels the touch of noon | A |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not a rustle stirs the grass | B |
| Not a shadow flecks the sky | C |
| Save the brown hawk hovering nigh | C |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Not a ripple dims the glass | B |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Of the wide lagoon | A |
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| Darkly like an armed host | D |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Seen afar against the blue | E |
| Rise the hills and yellow grey | F |
| Sleeps the plain in cove and bay | F |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Like a shining sea that dreams | G |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Round a silent coast | D |
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| From the heart of these blue hills | H |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Like the joy that flows from peace | I |
| Creeps the river far below | J |
| Fringed with willow sinuous slow | J |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Surely here there seems surcease | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp From the care that kills | I |
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| Surely here might radiant Love | K |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fill with happiness his cup | L |
| Where the purple lucerne bloom | M |
| Floods the air with sweet perfume | M |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nature's incense floating up | L |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp To the Gods above | K |
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| 'Neath the gnarled boughed apple trees | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Motionless the cattle stand | N |
| Chequered cornfield homestead white | O |
| Sleeping in the streaming light | O |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp For deep trance is o'er the land | N |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the wings of peace | I |
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| Here O Power that moves the heart | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thou art in the quiet air | Q |
| Here unvexed of code or creed | R |
| Man may breathe his bitter need | R |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Nor with impious lips declare | Q |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp What Thou wert and art | P |
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| All the strong souls of the race | I |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Thro' the aeons that have run | S |
| They have cried aloud to Thee | T |
| Thou art that which stirs in me | T |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp As the flame leaps towards the sun | S |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp They have sought Thy face | I |
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| But the faiths have flowered and flown | U |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp And the truth is but in part | P |
| Many a creed and many a grade | V |
| For Thy purpose Thou hast made | V |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp None can know Thee what Thou art | P |
| nbsp nbsp nbsp Fathomless Unknown | U |
George Essex Evans
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