For Where Your Treasure Is, There Will Your Heart Be Also Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCAB DEFFDE GHIIGH JKLLJK MNHHMN FOPPFO MQRRMQ| The miser lay on his lonely bed | A |
| Life's candle was burning dim | B |
| His heart in an iron chest was hid | C |
| Under heaps of gold and an iron lid | C |
| And whether it were alive or dead | A |
| It never troubled him | B |
| - | |
| Slowly out of his body he crept | D |
| He said I am just the same | E |
| Only I want my heart in my breast | F |
| I will go and fetch it out of my chest | F |
| Through the dark a darker shadow he leapt | D |
| Saying Hell is a fabled flame | E |
| - | |
| He opened the lid Oh Hell's own night | G |
| His ghost eyes saw no gold | H |
| Empty and swept Not a gleam was there | I |
| In goes his hand but the chest is bare | I |
| Ghost fingers aha have only might | G |
| To close not to clasp and hold | H |
| - | |
| But his heart he saw and he made a clutch | J |
| At the fungous puff ball of sin | K |
| Eaten with moths and fretted with rust | L |
| He grasped a handful of rotten dust | L |
| And shrieked as ghosts may at the crumbling touch | J |
| But hid it his breast within | K |
| - | |
| And some there are who see him sit | M |
| Under the church apart | N |
| Counting out coins and coins of gold | H |
| Heap by heap on the dank death mould | H |
| Alas poor ghost and his sore lack of wit | M |
| They breed in the dust of his heart | N |
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| Another miser has now his chest | F |
| And it hoards wealth more and more | O |
| Like ferrets his hands go in and out | P |
| Burrowing tossing the gold about | P |
| Nor heed the heart that gone from his breast | F |
| Is the cold heap's bloodless core | O |
| - | |
| Now wherein differ old ghosts that sit | M |
| Counting ghost coins all day | Q |
| From the man who clings with spirit prone | R |
| To whatever can never be his own | R |
| Who will leave the world with not one whit | M |
| But a heart all eaten away | Q |
George Macdonald
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