A Fear Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHGH IJIJ KLKL JMJN| O Mother Earth I have a fear | A |
| Which I would tell to thee | B |
| Softly and gently in thine ear | C |
| When the moon and we are three | B |
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| Thy grass and flowers are beautiful | D |
| Among thy trees I hide | E |
| And underneath the moonlight cool | F |
| Thy sea looks broad and wide | E |
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| But this I fear lest thou shouldst grow | G |
| To me so small and strange | H |
| So distant I should never know | G |
| On thee a shade of change | H |
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| Although great earthquakes should uplift | I |
| Deep mountains from their base | J |
| And thy continual motion shift | I |
| The lands upon thy face | J |
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| The grass the flowers the dews that lie | K |
| Upon them as before | L |
| Driven upwards evermore lest I | K |
| Should love these things no more | L |
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| Even now thou dimly hast a place | J |
| In deep star galaxies | M |
| And I driven ever on through space | J |
| Have lost thee in the skies | N |
George Macdonald
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