The Journey Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BCBCDEFG HIHIJKJK LMLMNONO PMPMAQAQ A MRMRSTST MUMVKTKT WTWTTMTM VTVTXYZY A TKTKTA2TA2 B2CB2CMMMM TC2TC2GAEA TMTMMD2MD2 A MAMAE2TE2T F2G2F2G2H2TH2T MI2MI2TMTM J2TJ2TK2L2K2L2

IA
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Hark the rain is on my roofB
Every murmur through the darkC
Stings me with a dull reproofB
Like a half extinguished sparkC
Me ah me how came I hereD
Wide awake and wide aloneE
Caught within a net of fearF
All my dreams undreamed and goneG
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I will rise I will go forthH
Better dare the hideous nightI
Better face the freezing northH
Than be still where is no lightI
Black wind rushing round me nowJ
Sown with arrowy points of rainK
Gone are there and then and nowJ
I am here and so is painK
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Dead in dreams the gloomy streetL
I will out on open roadsM
Eager grow my aimless feetL
Onward onward something goadsM
I will take the mountain pathN
Beard the storm within its denO
Know the worst of this dim wrathN
Harassing the souls of menO
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Chasm 'neath chasm rock piled on rockP
Roots and crumbling earth and stonesM
Hark the torrent's thundering shockP
Hark the swaying pine tree's groansM
Ah I faint I fall I dieA
Sink to nothingness awayQ
Lo a streak upon the skyA
Lo the opening eye of dayQ
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IIA
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Mountain summits lift their snowsM
O'er a valley green and lowR
And a winding pathway goesM
Guided by the river's flowR
And a music rises everS
As of peace and low contentT
From the pebble paven riverS
Like an odour upward sentT
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And the sound of ancient harmsM
Moans behind the hills amongU
Like the humming of the swarmsM
That unseen the forest throngV
Now I meet the shining rainK
From a cloud with sunny weftT
Now against the wind I strainK
Sudden burst from mountain cleftT
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Now a sky that hath a moonW
Staining all the cloudy whiteT
With a faded rainbow soonW
Lost in deeps of heavenly nightT
Now a morning clear and softT
Amber on the purple hillsM
Warm blue day of summer oftT
Cooled by wandering windy rillsM
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Joy to travel thus alongV
With the universe aroundT
Every creature of the throngV
Every sight and scent and soundT
Homeward speeding beauty ladenX
Beelike to its hive my soulY
Mine the eye the stars are made inZ
Mine the heart of Nature's wholeY
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IIIA
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Hills retreating on each handT
Slowly sink into the plainK
Solemn through the outspread landT
Rolls the river to the mainK
In the glooming of the nightT
Something through the dusky airA2
Doubtful glimmers faintly whiteT
But I know not what or whereA2
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Is it but a chalky ridgeB2
Bared of sod like tree of barkC
Or a river spanning bridgeB2
Miles away into the darkC
Or the foremost leaping wavesM
Of the everlasting seaM
Where the Undivided lavesM
Time with its eternityM
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Is it but an eye made sightT
In my brain a fancied gleamC2
Or a faint aurora lightT
From the sun's tired smoking teamC2
In the darkness it is goneG
Yet with every step draws nighA
Known shall be the thing unknownE
When the morning climbs the skyA
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Onward onward through the nightT
Matters it I cannot seeM
I am moving in a mightT
Dwelling in the dark and meM
End or way I cannot loseM
Grudge to rest or fear to roamD2
All is well with wanderer whoseM
Heart is travelling hourly homeD2
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IVA
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Joy O joy the dawning seaM
Answers to the dawning skyA
Foretaste of the coming gleeM
When the sun will lord it highA
See the swelling radiance growingE2
To a dazzling glory mightT
See the shadows gently goingE2
'Twixt the wave tops wild with lightT
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Hear the smiting billows clangF2
See the falling billows leanG2
Half a watery vault and hangF2
Gleaming with translucent greenG2
Then in thousand fleeces fallH2
Thundering light upon the strandT
This the whiteness which did callH2
Through the dusk across the landT
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See a boat Out out we danceM
Fierce blasts swoop upon my sailI2
What a terrible expanseM
Tumbling hill and heaving daleI2
Stayless helpless lost I floatT
Captive to the lawless freeM
But a prison is my boatT
Oh for petrel wings to fleeM
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Look below each watery whirlJ2
Cast in beauty's living mouldT
Look above each feathery curlJ2
Dropping crimson dropping goldT
Oh I tremble in the flushK2
Of the everlasting youthL2
Love and awe together rushK2
I am free in God the TruthL2

George Macdonald



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