Drawing Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAH IJIJ KLKL MMMM NONO BPQPDark 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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