The Hills Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB AEFEGE HDIDJD KLBLML NMOMPM QERESE NTDTUT SVWKXK| Behind my father's cottage lies | A |
| A gentle grassy height | B |
| Up which I often ran to gaze | C |
| Back with a wondering sight | B |
| For then the chimneys I thought high | D |
| Were down below me quite | B |
| - | |
| All round where'er I turned mine eyes | A |
| Huge hills closed up the view | E |
| The town 'mid their converging roots | F |
| Was clasped by rivers two | E |
| From one range to another sprang | G |
| The sky's great vault of blue | E |
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| It was a joy to climb their sides | H |
| And in the heather lie | D |
| A joy to look at vantage down | I |
| On the castle grim and high | D |
| Blue streams below white clouds above | J |
| In silent earth and sky | D |
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| And now where'er my feet may roam | K |
| At sight of stranger hill | L |
| A new sense of the old delight | B |
| Springs in my bosom still | L |
| And longings for the high unknown | M |
| Their ancient channels fill | L |
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| For I am always climbing hills | N |
| From the known to the unknown | M |
| Surely at last on some high peak | O |
| To find my Father's throne | M |
| Though hitherto I have only found | P |
| His footsteps in the stone | M |
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| And in my wanderings I did meet | Q |
| Another searching too | E |
| The dawning hope the shared quest | R |
| Our thoughts together drew | E |
| Fearless she laid her band in mine | S |
| Because her heart was true | E |
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| She was not born among the hills | N |
| Yet on each mountain face | T |
| A something known her inward eye | D |
| By inborn light can trace | T |
| For up the hills must homeward be | U |
| Though no one knows the place | T |
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| Clasp my hand close my child in thine | S |
| A long way we have come | V |
| Clasp my hand closer yet my child | W |
| Farther we yet must roam | K |
| Climbing and climbing till we reach | X |
| Our heavenly father's home | K |
George Macdonald
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