Drawing Water Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF AGAH IJIJ KLKL MMMM NONO BPQP

Dark as if it would not tellA
Lies the water still and coolB
Dip the bucket in the wellA
Lift it from the precious poolB
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Up it comes all brown and dimC
Telling of the twilight sweetD
As it rises to the brimC
See the sun and water meetD
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See the friends each other hailE
Here you are cries Master SunF
Mistress Water from the pailE
Flashes back alive with funF
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Have you not a tale to tellA
Water as I take you homeG
Tell me of the hidden wellA
Whence you first of all did comeH
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Of it you have kept some flavourI
Through long paths of darkling strifeJ
Water all has still a savourI
Of the primal well of lifeJ
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Could you show the lovely wayK
Back and up through sea and skyL
To that well Oh happy dayK
I would drink and never dieL
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Jesus sits there on its brinkM
All the world's great thirst to slakeM
Offering every one to drinkM
Who will only come and takeM
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Lord of wells and waters allN
Lord of rains and dewy beadsO
Unto thee my thirst doth callN
For the thing thou know'st it needsO
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Come home water sweet and coolB
Gift of God thou always artP
Spring up Well more beautifulQ
Rise in mine straight from his heartP

George Macdonald



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