To An Autograph-hunter Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDED FGHG IJIJ| Seek not my name it doth no virtue bear | A |
| Seek seek thine own primeval name to find | B |
| The name God called when thy ideal fair | A |
| Arose in deeps of the eternal mind | B |
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| When that thou findest thou art straight a lord | C |
| Of time and space art heir of all things grown | D |
| And not my name poor earthly label word | E |
| But I myself thenceforward am thine own | D |
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| Thou hearest not Or hearest as a man | F |
| Who hears the muttering of a foolish spell | G |
| My very shadow would feel strange and wan | H |
| In thy abode I say No and Farewell | G |
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| Thou understandest Then it is enough | I |
| No shadow deputy shall mock my friend | J |
| We walk the same path over smooth and rough | I |
| To meet ere long at the unending end | J |
George Macdonald
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