December 27, 1879 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD BEBE EFEF GHGH IJIJ AKAL MNMN OJPJ AQAQ RCRC CSCS TJUJ BTBT| Every time would have its song | A |
| If the heart were right | B |
| Seeing Love all tender strong | A |
| Fills the day and night | B |
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| Weary drop the hands of Prayer | C |
| Calling out for peace | D |
| Love always and everywhere | C |
| Sings and does not cease | D |
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| Fear the caitiff through the night | B |
| Silent peers about | E |
| Love comes singing with a light | B |
| And doth cast him out | E |
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| Hate and Guile and Wrath and Doubt | E |
| Never try to sing | F |
| If they did oh what a rout | E |
| Anguished ears would sting | F |
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| Pride indeed will sometimes aim | G |
| At the finer speech | H |
| But the best that he can frame | G |
| Is a peacock screech | H |
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| Greed will also sometimes try | I |
| Happiness he hunts | J |
| But his dwelling is a sty | I |
| And his tones are grunts | J |
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| Faith will sometimes raise a song | A |
| Soaring up to heaven | K |
| Then she will be silent long | A |
| And will weep at even | L |
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| Hope has many a gladsome note | M |
| Now and then to pipe | N |
| But alas he has the throat | M |
| Of a bird unripe | N |
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| Often Joy a stave will start | O |
| Which the welkin rends | J |
| But it always breaks athwart | P |
| And untimely ends | J |
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| Grief who still for death doth long | A |
| Always self abhorred | Q |
| Has but one low troubled song | A |
| I am sorry Lord | Q |
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| But Love singeth in the vault | R |
| Singeth on the stair | C |
| Even for Sorrow will not halt | R |
| Singeth everywhere | C |
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| For the great Love everywhere | C |
| Over all doth glow | S |
| Draws his birds up trough the air | C |
| Tends his birds below | S |
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| And with songs ascending sheer | T |
| Love born Love replies | J |
| Singing Father in his ear | U |
| Where she bleeding lies | J |
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| Therefore if my heart were right | B |
| I should sing out clear | T |
| Sing aloud both day and night | B |
| Every month in the year | T |
George Macdonald
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