The Shadows Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEG HIHI EJEJ KLKL| My little boy with smooth fair cheeks | A |
| And dreamy large brown eyes | B |
| Not often little wisehead speaks | A |
| But hearing weighs and tries | B |
| - | |
| God is not only in the sky | C |
| His sister said one day | D |
| Not older much but she would cry | C |
| Like Wisdom in the way | D |
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| He's in this room His dreamy clear | E |
| Large eyes look round for God | F |
| In vain they search in vain they peer | E |
| His wits are all abroad | G |
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| He is not here mamma No no | H |
| I do not see him at all | I |
| He's not the shadows is he So | H |
| His doubtful accents fall | I |
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| Fall on my heart no babble mere | E |
| They rouse both love and shame | J |
| But for earth's loneliness and fear | E |
| I might be saying the same | J |
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| Nay sometimes ere the morning break | K |
| And home the shadows flee | L |
| In my dim room even yet I take | K |
| Those shadows Lord for thee | L |
George Macdonald
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