The Golden Key Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK LMLM NONO PQPQ RSRS PTPU JKJK VWVW DXDY ZA2ZA2 PB2PC2 D2QD2Q

From off the earth the vapours curledA
Went up to meet their joyB
The boy awoke and all the worldA
Was waiting for the boyB
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The sky the water the wide earthC
Was full of windy playD
Shining and fair alive with mirthC
All for his holidayD
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The hill said Climb me and the woodE
Come to my bosom childF
Mine is a merry gamboling broodG
Come and with them go wildF
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The shadows with the sunlight playedH
The birds were singing loudI
The hill stood up with pines arrayedH
He ran to join the crowdI
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But long ere noon dark grew the skiesJ
Pale grew the shrinking sunK
How soon he said for clouds to riseJ
When day was but begunK
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The wind grew rough a wilful powerL
It swept o'er tree and townM
The boy exulted for an hourL
Then weary sat him downM
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And as he sat the rain beganN
And rained till all was stillO
He looked and saw a rainbow spanN
The vale from hill to hillO
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He dried his tears Ah now he saidP
The storm was good I seeQ
Yon pine dressed hill upon its headP
I'll find the golden keyQ
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He thrid the copse he climbed the fenceR
At last the top did scaleS
But lo the rainbow vanished thenceR
Was shining in the valeS
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Still here it stood yes here he saidP
Its very foot was setT
I saw this fir tree through the redP
This through the violetU
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He searched and searched while down the skiesJ
Went slow the slanting sunK
At length he lifted hopeless eyesJ
And day was nearly doneK
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Beyond the vale above the heathV
High flamed the crimson westW
His mother's cottage lay beneathV
The sky bird's rosy breastW
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Oh joy he cried not all the wayD
Farther from home we goX
The rain will come another dayD
And bring another bowY
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Long ere he reached his mother's cotZ
Still tiring more and moreA2
The red was all one cold gray blotZ
And night lay round the doorA2
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But when his mother stroked his headP
The night was grim in vainB2
And when she kissed him in his bedP
The rainbow rose againC2
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Soon things that are and things that seemD2
Did mingle merrilyQ
He dreamed nor was it all a dreamD2
His mother had the keyQ

George Macdonald



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