A Gift Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABAB CDCDCD EBEBEB DFDFDF| My gift would find thee fast asleep | A |
| And arise a dream in thee | B |
| A violet sky o'er the roll and sweep | A |
| Of a purple and pallid sea | B |
| And a crescent moon from my sky should creep | A |
| In the golden dream to thee | B |
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| Thou shouldst lay thee down and sadly list | C |
| To the wail of our cold birth time | D |
| And build thee a temple glory kissed | C |
| In the heart of the sunny clime | D |
| Its columns should rise in a music mist | C |
| And its roofs in a spirit rhyme | D |
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| Its pillars the solemn hills should bind | E |
| 'Neath arches of starry deeps | B |
| Its floor the earth all veined and lined | E |
| Its organ the ocean sweeps | B |
| And swung in the hands of the grey robed wind | E |
| Its censers the blossom heaps | B |
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| And 'tis almost done for in this my rhyme | D |
| Thanks to thy mirror soul | F |
| Thou wilt see the mountains and hear the chime | D |
| Of the waters after the roll | F |
| And the stars of my sky thy sky will climb | D |
| And with heaven roof in the whole | F |
George Macdonald
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