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 D2QD2QFrom off the earth the vapours curled | A |
Went up to meet their joy | B |
The boy awoke and all the world | A |
Was waiting for the boy | B |
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The sky the water the wide earth | C |
Was full of windy play | D |
Shining and fair alive with mirth | C |
All for his holiday | D |
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The hill said Climb me and the wood | E |
Come to my bosom child | F |
Mine is a merry gamboling brood | G |
Come and with them go wild | F |
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The shadows with the sunlight played | H |
The birds were singing loud | I |
The hill stood up with pines arrayed | H |
He ran to join the crowd | I |
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But long ere noon dark grew the skies | J |
Pale grew the shrinking sun | K |
How soon he said for clouds to rise | J |
When day was but begun | K |
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The wind grew rough a wilful power | L |
It swept o'er tree and town | M |
The boy exulted for an hour | L |
Then weary sat him down | M |
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And as he sat the rain began | N |
And rained till all was still | O |
He looked and saw a rainbow span | N |
The vale from hill to hill | O |
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He dried his tears Ah now he said | P |
The storm was good I see | Q |
Yon pine dressed hill upon its head | P |
I'll find the golden key | Q |
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He thrid the copse he climbed the fence | R |
At last the top did scale | S |
But lo the rainbow vanished thence | R |
Was shining in the vale | S |
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Still here it stood yes here he said | P |
Its very foot was set | T |
I saw this fir tree through the red | P |
This through the violet | U |
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He searched and searched while down the skies | J |
Went slow the slanting sun | K |
At length he lifted hopeless eyes | J |
And day was nearly done | K |
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Beyond the vale above the heath | V |
High flamed the crimson west | W |
His mother's cottage lay beneath | V |
The sky bird's rosy breast | W |
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Oh joy he cried not all the way | D |
Farther from home we go | X |
The rain will come another day | D |
And bring another bow | Y |
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Long ere he reached his mother's cot | Z |
Still tiring more and more | A2 |
The red was all one cold gray blot | Z |
And night lay round the door | A2 |
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But when his mother stroked his head | P |
The night was grim in vain | B2 |
And when she kissed him in his bed | P |
The rainbow rose again | C2 |
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Soon things that are and things that seem | D2 |
Did mingle merrily | Q |
He dreamed nor was it all a dream | D2 |
His mother had the key | Q |
George Macdonald
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