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 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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