At My Window After Sunset Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD HAHA IDID GEGE DJDJ DKDK LDLD DMDM DNDN| Heaven and the sea attend the dying day | A |
| And in their sadness overflow and blend | B |
| Faint gold and windy blue and green and gray | A |
| Far out amid them my pale soul I send | B |
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| For as they mingle so mix life and death | C |
| An hour draws near when my day too will die | D |
| Already I forecast unheaving breath | C |
| Eviction on the moorland of yon sky | D |
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| Coldly and sadly lone unhoused alone | E |
| Twixt wind broke wave and heaven's uncaring space | F |
| At board and hearth from this time forth unknown | E |
| Refuge no more in wife or daughter's face | F |
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| Cold cold and sad lone as that desert sea | G |
| Sad lonely as that hopeless patient sky | D |
| Forward I cannot go nor backward flee | G |
| I am not dead I live and cannot die | D |
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| Where are ye loved ones hither come before | H |
| Did you fare thus when first ye came this way | A |
| Somewhere there must be yet another door | H |
| A door in somewhere from this dreary gray | A |
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| Come walking over watery hill and glen | I |
| Or stoop your faces through yon cloud perplext | D |
| Come any one of dearest sacred ten | I |
| And bring me patient hoping for the next | D |
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| Maker of heaven and earth father of me | G |
| My words are but a weak fantastic moan | E |
| Were I a land leaf drifting on the sea | G |
| Thou still wert with me I were not alone | E |
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| I am in thee O father lord of sky | D |
| And lord of waves and lord of human souls | J |
| In thee all precious ones to me more nigh | D |
| Than if they rushing came in radiant shoals | J |
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| I shall not be alone although I die | D |
| And loved ones should delay their coming long | K |
| Though I saw round me nought but sea and sky | D |
| Bare sea and sky would wake a holy song | K |
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| They are thy garments thou art near within | L |
| Father of fathers friend creating friend | D |
| Thou art for ever therefore I begin | L |
| Thou lov'st therefore my love shall never end | D |
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| Let loose thy giving father on thy child | D |
| I pray thee father give me everything | M |
| Give me the joy that makes the children wild | D |
| Give throat and heart an old new song to sing | M |
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| Ye are my joy great father perfect Christ | D |
| And humble men of heart oh everywhere | N |
| With all the true I keep a hoping tryst | D |
| Eternal love is my eternal prayer | N |
George Macdonald
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