Picture Songs Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEDE BFBF BGBG A HCHC IJIJ DKDK A BDBDBD BDBDBD BLBLBL K BMBN BOBP| I | A |
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| A pale green sky is gleaming | B |
| The steely stars are few | C |
| The moorland pond is steaming | B |
| A mist of gray and blue | C |
| - | |
| Along the pathway lonely | D |
| My horse is walking slow | E |
| Three living creatures only | D |
| He I and a home bound crow | E |
| - | |
| The moon is hardly shaping | B |
| Her circle in the fog | F |
| A dumb stream is escaping | B |
| Its prison in the bog | F |
| - | |
| But in my heart are ringing | B |
| Tones of a lofty song | G |
| A voice that I know is singing | B |
| And my heart all night must long | G |
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| II | A |
| - | |
| Over a shining land | H |
| Once such a land I knew | C |
| Over its sea by a soft wind fanned | H |
| The sky is all white and blue | C |
| - | |
| The waves are kissing the shores | I |
| Murmuring love and for ever | J |
| A boat gleams green and its timeful oars | I |
| Flash out of the level river | J |
| - | |
| Oh to be there with thee | D |
| And the sun on wet sands my love | K |
| With the shining river the sparkling sea | D |
| And the radiant sky above | K |
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| III | A |
| - | |
| The autumn winds are sighing | B |
| Over land and sea | D |
| The autumn woods are dying | B |
| Over hill and lea | D |
| And my heart is sighing dying | B |
| Maiden for thee | D |
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| The autumn clouds are flying | B |
| Homeless over me | D |
| The nestless birds are crying | B |
| In the naked tree | D |
| And my heart is flying crying | B |
| Maiden to thee | D |
| - | |
| The autumn sea is crawling | B |
| Up the chilly shore | L |
| The thin voiced firs are calling | B |
| Ghostily evermore | L |
| Maiden maiden I am falling | B |
| Dead at thy door | L |
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| IV | K |
| - | |
| The waters are rising and flowing | B |
| Over the weedy stone | M |
| Over it over it going | B |
| It is never gone | N |
| - | |
| Waves upon waves of weeping | B |
| Went over the ancient pain | O |
| Glad waves go over it leaping | B |
| Still it rises again | P |
George Macdonald
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