The Secret Key Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFDDGGHHDD EECCDDII| There is a magic kingdom of strange powers | A |
| Thought hidden lit by other stars than ours | A |
| And when a wanderer through its mazes brings | B |
| Word of things seen men say A poet sings | B |
| Its gates are guarded in a sterile land | C |
| Mountain and deep morass and shifting sand | C |
| Storm barred are they and may not opened be | D |
| Save by the hand that finds the secret key | D |
| That key some say lies in the sunset glow | E |
| Or the white arc of dawn or where the flow | E |
| Of some lone river stems the shoreward wave | F |
| In shuddering silver on its ocean grave | F |
| Some say that when the wind wars with the sea | D |
| In that stern music one may find the key | D |
| Or in green glooms of forests where the pine | G |
| Uplifts her spear amid great wreaths of vine | G |
| Or where the streaming mist s white rollers climb | H |
| The dark ravine and precipice sublime | H |
| A filmy sea that twines and intertwines | D |
| Wreathes the low hills and veils the mighty lines | D |
| Of sovran mountains crimsoned and aglow | E |
| In crystal pomp crested with jewelled snow | E |
| But still with souls afire men seek that land | C |
| And die in deep morass and shifting sand | C |
| To those alone its iron gates are free | D |
| Who find within their hearts the secret key | D |
| For Earth with all the colour of her day | I |
| Is not their country that lies far away | I |
George Essex Evans
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