From Novalis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH GCGCGIGI JKLKKMKN| Uplifted is the stone | A |
| And all mankind arisen | B |
| We are thy very own | A |
| We are no more in prison | B |
| What bitterest grief can stay | C |
| Beside thy golden cup | D |
| When earth and life give way | C |
| And with our Lord we sup | D |
| - | |
| To the marriage Death doth call | E |
| The lamps are burning clear | F |
| The virgins ready all | E |
| Have for their oil no fear | F |
| Would that even now were ringing | G |
| The distance with thy throng | H |
| And that the stars were singing | G |
| To us a human song | H |
| - | |
| Courage for life is hasting | G |
| To endless life away | C |
| The inward fire unwasting | G |
| Transfigures our dull clay | C |
| See the stars melting sinking | G |
| In life wine golden bright | I |
| We of the splendour drinking | G |
| Shall grow to stars of light | I |
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| Lost lost are all our losses | J |
| Love is for ever free | K |
| The full life heaves and tosses | L |
| Like an unbounded sea | K |
| One live eternal story | K |
| One poem high and broad | M |
| And sun of all our glory | K |
| The countenance of God | N |
George Macdonald
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