The Prism Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCBC DEFE GHGI JKJK CJCB A LMLM NBNB FOFO BABA CPCP| I | A |
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| A pool of broken sunbeams lay | B |
| Upon the passage floor | C |
| Radiant and rich profound and gay | B |
| As ever diamond bore | C |
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| Small flitting hands a handkerchief | D |
| Spread like a cunning trap | E |
| Prone lay the gorgeous jewel sheaf | F |
| In the glory gleaner's lap | E |
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| Deftly she folded up the prize | G |
| With lovely avarice | H |
| Like one whom having had made wise | G |
| She bore it off in bliss | I |
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| But ah when for her prisoned gems | J |
| She peeped to prove them there | K |
| No glories broken from their stems | J |
| Lay in the kerchief bare | K |
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| For still outside the nursery door | C |
| The bright persistency | J |
| A molten diadem on the floor | C |
| Lay burning wondrously | B |
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| II | A |
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| How oft have I laid fold from fold | L |
| And peered into my mind | M |
| To see of all the purple and gold | L |
| Not one gleam left behind | M |
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| The best of gifts will not be stored | N |
| The manna of yesterday | B |
| Has filled no sacred miser hoard | N |
| To keep new need away | B |
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| Thy grace O Lord it is thyself | F |
| Thy presence is thy light | O |
| I cannot lay it on my shelf | F |
| Or take it from thy sight | O |
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| For daily bread we daily pray | B |
| The want still breeds the cry | A |
| And so we meet day after day | B |
| Thou Father in heaven and I | A |
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| Is my house dreary wall and floor | C |
| Will not the darkness flit | P |
| I go outside my shadowy door | C |
| And in thy rainbow sit | P |
George Macdonald
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