Tell Me Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDC EFEF GHIH JKJK LFLF HMHM NONO PDPD QRQR SKSK QTQT UVUV WXWY ZCZC| Traveller what lies over the hill | A |
| Traveller tell to me | B |
| Tip toe high on the window sill | A |
| Over I cannot see | B |
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| My child a valley green lies there | C |
| Lovely with trees and shy | D |
| And a tiny brook that says 'Take care | C |
| Or I'll drown you by and by ' | - |
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| And what comes next A little town | E |
| And a towering hill again | F |
| More hills and valleys up and down | E |
| And a river now and then | F |
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| And what comes next A lonely moor | G |
| Without one beaten way | H |
| And slow clouds drifting dull before | I |
| A wind that will not stay | H |
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| And then Dark rocks and yellow sand | J |
| Blue sea and a moaning tide | K |
| And then More sea and then more land | J |
| With rivers deep and wide | K |
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| And then Oh rock and mountain and vale | L |
| Ocean and shores and men | F |
| Over and over a weary tale | L |
| And round to your home again | F |
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| And is that all From day to day | H |
| Like one with a long chain bound | M |
| Should I walk and walk and not get away | H |
| But go always round and round | M |
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| No no I have not told you the best | N |
| I have not told you the end | O |
| If you want to escape away in the west | N |
| You will see a stair ascend | O |
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| Built of all colours of lovely stones | P |
| A stair up into the sky | D |
| Where no one is weary and no one moans | P |
| Or wishes to be laid by | D |
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| Is it far away I do not know | Q |
| You must fix your eyes thereon | R |
| And travel travel through thunder and snow | Q |
| Till the weary way is gone | R |
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| All day though you never see it shine | S |
| You must travel nor turn aside | K |
| All night you must keep as straight a line | S |
| Through moonbeams or darkness wide | K |
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| When I am older Nay not so | Q |
| I have hardly opened my eyes | T |
| He who to the old sunset would go | Q |
| Starts best with the young sunrise | T |
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| Is the stair right up is it very steep | U |
| Too steep for you to climb | V |
| You must lie at the foot of the glorious heap | U |
| And patient wait your time | V |
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| How long Nay that I cannot tell | W |
| In wind and rain and frost | X |
| It may be so and it is well | W |
| That you should count the cost | Y |
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| Pilgrims from near and from distant lands | Z |
| Will step on you lying there | C |
| But a wayfaring man with wounded hands | Z |
| Will carry you up the stair | C |
George Macdonald
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