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 J2TJ2TK2L2K2L2I | A |
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Hark the rain is on my roof | B |
Every murmur through the dark | C |
Stings me with a dull reproof | B |
Like a half extinguished spark | C |
Me ah me how came I here | D |
Wide awake and wide alone | E |
Caught within a net of fear | F |
All my dreams undreamed and gone | G |
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I will rise I will go forth | H |
Better dare the hideous night | I |
Better face the freezing north | H |
Than be still where is no light | I |
Black wind rushing round me now | J |
Sown with arrowy points of rain | K |
Gone are there and then and now | J |
I am here and so is pain | K |
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Dead in dreams the gloomy street | L |
I will out on open roads | M |
Eager grow my aimless feet | L |
Onward onward something goads | M |
I will take the mountain path | N |
Beard the storm within its den | O |
Know the worst of this dim wrath | N |
Harassing the souls of men | O |
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Chasm 'neath chasm rock piled on rock | P |
Roots and crumbling earth and stones | M |
Hark the torrent's thundering shock | P |
Hark the swaying pine tree's groans | M |
Ah I faint I fall I die | A |
Sink to nothingness away | Q |
Lo a streak upon the sky | A |
Lo the opening eye of day | Q |
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II | A |
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Mountain summits lift their snows | M |
O'er a valley green and low | R |
And a winding pathway goes | M |
Guided by the river's flow | R |
And a music rises ever | S |
As of peace and low content | T |
From the pebble paven river | S |
Like an odour upward sent | T |
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And the sound of ancient harms | M |
Moans behind the hills among | U |
Like the humming of the swarms | M |
That unseen the forest throng | V |
Now I meet the shining rain | K |
From a cloud with sunny weft | T |
Now against the wind I strain | K |
Sudden burst from mountain cleft | T |
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Now a sky that hath a moon | W |
Staining all the cloudy white | T |
With a faded rainbow soon | W |
Lost in deeps of heavenly night | T |
Now a morning clear and soft | T |
Amber on the purple hills | M |
Warm blue day of summer oft | T |
Cooled by wandering windy rills | M |
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Joy to travel thus along | V |
With the universe around | T |
Every creature of the throng | V |
Every sight and scent and sound | T |
Homeward speeding beauty laden | X |
Beelike to its hive my soul | Y |
Mine the eye the stars are made in | Z |
Mine the heart of Nature's whole | Y |
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III | A |
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Hills retreating on each hand | T |
Slowly sink into the plain | K |
Solemn through the outspread land | T |
Rolls the river to the main | K |
In the glooming of the night | T |
Something through the dusky air | A2 |
Doubtful glimmers faintly white | T |
But I know not what or where | A2 |
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Is it but a chalky ridge | B2 |
Bared of sod like tree of bark | C |
Or a river spanning bridge | B2 |
Miles away into the dark | C |
Or the foremost leaping waves | M |
Of the everlasting sea | M |
Where the Undivided laves | M |
Time with its eternity | M |
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Is it but an eye made sight | T |
In my brain a fancied gleam | C2 |
Or a faint aurora light | T |
From the sun's tired smoking team | C2 |
In the darkness it is gone | G |
Yet with every step draws nigh | A |
Known shall be the thing unknown | E |
When the morning climbs the sky | A |
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Onward onward through the night | T |
Matters it I cannot see | M |
I am moving in a might | T |
Dwelling in the dark and me | M |
End or way I cannot lose | M |
Grudge to rest or fear to roam | D2 |
All is well with wanderer whose | M |
Heart is travelling hourly home | D2 |
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IV | A |
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Joy O joy the dawning sea | M |
Answers to the dawning sky | A |
Foretaste of the coming glee | M |
When the sun will lord it high | A |
See the swelling radiance growing | E2 |
To a dazzling glory might | T |
See the shadows gently going | E2 |
'Twixt the wave tops wild with light | T |
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Hear the smiting billows clang | F2 |
See the falling billows lean | G2 |
Half a watery vault and hang | F2 |
Gleaming with translucent green | G2 |
Then in thousand fleeces fall | H2 |
Thundering light upon the strand | T |
This the whiteness which did call | H2 |
Through the dusk across the land | T |
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See a boat Out out we dance | M |
Fierce blasts swoop upon my sail | I2 |
What a terrible expanse | M |
Tumbling hill and heaving dale | I2 |
Stayless helpless lost I float | T |
Captive to the lawless free | M |
But a prison is my boat | T |
Oh for petrel wings to flee | M |
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Look below each watery whirl | J2 |
Cast in beauty's living mould | T |
Look above each feathery curl | J2 |
Dropping crimson dropping gold | T |
Oh I tremble in the flush | K2 |
Of the everlasting youth | L2 |
Love and awe together rush | K2 |
I am free in God the Truth | L2 |
George Macdonald
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