An Old Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFHIJIJ A BBBBKLKL MNMNOPOP A QRSRBBBB EEEEEDED T UNUNNVNV ELELWNWNI | A |
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In the ancient house of ages | B |
See they cannot rest | C |
With a hope which awe assuages | B |
Tremble all the blest | C |
For the son and heir eternal | D |
To be son yet more | E |
Leaves his stately chair supernal | D |
For the earth's low floor | E |
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Leaves the room so high and old | F |
Leaves the all world hearth | G |
Seeks the out air frosty cold | F |
Of the twilight earth | H |
To be throned in newer glory | I |
In a mother's lap | J |
Gather up our broken story | I |
And right every hap | J |
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II | A |
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There Earth's foster baby lies | B |
Sleep dimmed all his graces | B |
'Neath four stars of parents' eyes | B |
And two heavens of faces | B |
See the cow and ass dumb staring | K |
Feel the skirts of good | L |
Fold them in dull blessed sharing | K |
Of infinitude | L |
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Make a little room betwixt you | M |
Pray you Ass and Cow | N |
Sure we shall if I kneel next you | M |
Know each other now | N |
To the pit fallen comes salvation | O |
Love is never loath | P |
Here we are thy whole creation | O |
Waiting Lord thy growth | P |
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III | A |
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On the slopes of Bethlehem | Q |
Round their resting sheep | R |
Shepherds sat and went and came | S |
Guarding holy sleep | R |
But the silent high dome spaces | B |
Airy galleries | B |
Thronged they were with watching faces | B |
Thronged with open eyes | B |
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Far across the desert floor | E |
Come slow drawing nigher | E |
Sages deep in starry lore | E |
Priests of burning Fire | E |
In the sky they read his story | E |
And through starlight cool | D |
They come riding to the Glory | E |
To the Wonderful | D |
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IV | T |
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Babe and mother coming Mage | U |
Shepherd ass and cow | N |
Angels watching the new age | U |
Time's intensest Now | N |
Heaven down brooding Earth upstraining | N |
Far ends closing in | V |
Sure the eternal tide is gaining | N |
On the strand of sin | V |
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See but see Heaven's chapel master | E |
Signs with lifted hand | L |
Winds divine blow fast and faster | E |
Swelling bosoms grand | L |
Hark the torrent joy let slip | W |
Hark the great throats ring | N |
Glory Peace Good fellowship | W |
And a Child for king | N |
George Macdonald
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