How Shall He Sing Who Hath No Song? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAAABAAAAACCACAC CDDEFAACGGHH AAAIACACC| How shall he sing who hath no song | A |
| He laugh who hath no mirth | B |
| Will cannot wake the sleeping song | A |
| Yea Love itself in vain may long | A |
| To sing with them that have a song | A |
| Or mirthless laugh with Mirth | B |
| He who would sing but hath no song | A |
| Must speak the right denounce the wrong | A |
| Must humbly front the indignant throng | A |
| Must yield his back to Satire's thong | A |
| Nor shield his face from liar's prong | A |
| Must say and do and be the truth | C |
| And fearless wait for what ensueth | C |
| Wait wait with patience sweet and strong | A |
| Until God's glory fill the earth | C |
| Then shall he sing who had no song | A |
| He laugh who had no mirth | C |
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| Yea if in land of stony dearth | C |
| Like barren rock thou sit | D |
| Round which the phantom waters flit | D |
| Of heart and brain mirage | E |
| That can no thirst assuage | F |
| Yet be thou still and wait wait long | A |
| A right sea comes to drown the wrong | A |
| God's glory comes to fill the earth | C |
| And thou no more a scathed rock | G |
| Shalt start alive with gladsome shock | G |
| Shalt a hand clapping billow be | H |
| And shout with the eternal sea | H |
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| To righteousness and love belong | A |
| The dance the jubilance the song | A |
| When the great Right hath quelled the wrong | A |
| And Truth hath stilled the lying tongue | I |
| Then men must sing because of song | A |
| And laugh because of mirth | C |
| And this shall be their anthem strong | A |
| Hallow the glad God fills the earth | C |
| And Love sits down by every hearth | C |
George Macdonald
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