Song Of A Poor Pilgrim Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH DIDI JKJK ILIL| Roses all the rosy way | A |
| Roses to the rosier west | B |
| Where the roses of the day | A |
| Cling to night's unrosy breast | B |
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| Thou who mak'st the roses why | C |
| Give to every leaf a thorn | D |
| On thy rosy highway I | C |
| Still am by thy roses torn | D |
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| Pardon I will not mistake | E |
| These good thorns that make me fret | F |
| Goads to urge me stings to wake | E |
| For my freedom they are set | F |
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| Yea on one steep mountain side | G |
| Climbing to a fancied fold | H |
| Roses grasped had let me slide | G |
| But the thorns did keep their hold | H |
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| Out of darkness light is born | D |
| Out of weakness make me strong | I |
| One glad day will every thorn | D |
| Break into a rose of song | I |
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| Though like sparrow sit thy bird | J |
| Lonely on the house top dark | K |
| By the rosy dawning stirred | J |
| Up will soar thy praising lark | K |
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| Roses roses all his song | I |
| Roses in a gorgeous feast | L |
| Roses in a royal throng | I |
| Surging rosing from the east | L |
George Macdonald
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