Drawing Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAH IJIJ KLKL MMMM NONO BPQP| Dark as if it would not tell | A |
| Lies the water still and cool | B |
| Dip the bucket in the well | A |
| Lift it from the precious pool | B |
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| Up it comes all brown and dim | C |
| Telling of the twilight sweet | D |
| As it rises to the brim | C |
| See the sun and water meet | D |
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| See the friends each other hail | E |
| Here you are cries Master Sun | F |
| Mistress Water from the pail | E |
| Flashes back alive with fun | F |
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| Have you not a tale to tell | A |
| Water as I take you home | G |
| Tell me of the hidden well | A |
| Whence you first of all did come | H |
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| Of it you have kept some flavour | I |
| Through long paths of darkling strife | J |
| Water all has still a savour | I |
| Of the primal well of life | J |
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| Could you show the lovely way | K |
| Back and up through sea and sky | L |
| To that well Oh happy day | K |
| I would drink and never die | L |
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| Jesus sits there on its brink | M |
| All the world's great thirst to slake | M |
| Offering every one to drink | M |
| Who will only come and take | M |
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| Lord of wells and waters all | N |
| Lord of rains and dewy beads | O |
| Unto thee my thirst doth call | N |
| For the thing thou know'st it needs | O |
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| Come home water sweet and cool | B |
| Gift of God thou always art | P |
| Spring up Well more beautiful | Q |
| Rise in mine straight from his heart | P |
George Macdonald
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