An Old Story Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEDE FGFHIJIJ A BBBBKLKL MNMNOPOP A QRSRBBBB EEEEEDED T UNUNNVNV ELELWNWN| I | 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 |
| - | |
| 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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