Longing Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC DEDFGG HIHICC IJIJKK LMLMCC NONOPP| My heart is full of inarticulate pain | A |
| And beats laborious Cold ungenial looks | B |
| Invade my sanctuary Men of gain | A |
| Wise in success well read in feeble books | B |
| No nigher come I pray your air is drear | C |
| 'Tis winter and low skies when ye appear | C |
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| Beloved who love beauty and fair truth | D |
| Come nearer me too near ye cannot come | E |
| Make me an atmosphere with your sweet youth | D |
| Give me your souls to breathe in a large room | F |
| Speak not a word for see my spirit lies | G |
| Helpless and dumb shine on me with your eyes | G |
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| O all wide places far from feverous towns | H |
| Great shining seas pine forests mountains wild | I |
| Rock bosomed shores rough heaths and sheep cropt downs | H |
| Vast pallid clouds blue spaces undefiled | I |
| Room give me room give loneliness and air | C |
| Free things and plenteous in your regions fair | C |
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| White dove of David flying overhead | I |
| Golden with sunlight on thy snowy wings | J |
| Outspeeding thee my longing thoughts are fled | I |
| To find a home afar from men of things | J |
| Where in his temple earth o'erarched with sky | K |
| God's heart to mine may speak my heart reply | K |
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| O God of mountains stars and boundless spaces | L |
| O God of freedom and of joyous hearts | M |
| When thy face looketh forth from all men's faces | L |
| There will be room enough in crowded marts | M |
| Brood thou around me and the noise is o'er | C |
| Thy universe my closet with shut door | C |
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| Heart heart awake The love that loveth all | N |
| Maketh a deeper calm than Horeb's cave | O |
| God in thee can his children's folly gall | N |
| Love may be hurt but shall not love be brave | O |
| Thy holy silence sinks in dews of balm | P |
| Thou art my solitude my mountain calm | P |
George Macdonald
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