To My Mother Earth Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFGF HIHI JKJK JBJB LMLM NBNB OPOP BQBQ RSRS MTMT MUMU VMWM XYXY SBSB MZMZ MA2MA2 B2C2B2C2 FD2FD2 MMMM ME2ME2 F2MF2M G2H2G2I2 J2BJ2B

O Earth Earth EarthA
I am dying for love of theeB
For thou hast given me birthA
And thy hands have tended meB
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I would fall asleep on thy breastC
When its swelling folds are bareD
When the thrush dreams of its nestC
And the life of its joy in the airD
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When thy life is a vanished ghostE
And the glory hath left thy wavesF
When thine eye is blind with frostG
And the fog sits on the gravesF
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When the blasts are shivering aboutH
And the rain thy branches beatsI
When the damps of death are outH
And the mourners are in the streetsI
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Oh my sleep should be deepJ
In the arms of thy swiftening motionK
And my dirge the mystic sweepJ
Of the winds that nurse the oceanK
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And my eye would slowly opeJ
With the voice that awakens theeB
And runs like a glance of hopeJ
Up through the quickening treeB
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When the roots of the lonely firL
Are dipt in thy veining heatM
And thy countless atoms stirL
With the gather of mossy feetM
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When the sun's great censer swingsN
In the hands that always beB
And the mists from thy watery ringsN
Go up like dust from the seaB
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When the midnight airs are assemblingO
With a gush in thy whispering hallsP
And the leafy air is tremblingO
Like a stream before it fallsP
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Thy shadowy hand hath found meB
On the drifts of the Godhead's willQ
And thy dust hath risen around meB
With a life that guards me stillQ
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O Earth I have caught from thineR
The pulse of a mystic chaseS
O Earth I have drunk like wineR
The life of thy swiftening raceS
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Wilt miss me mother sweetM
A life in thy milky veinsT
Wilt miss the sound of my feetM
In the tramp that shakes thy plainsT
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When the jaws of darkness rendM
And the vapours fold awayU
And the sounds of life ascendM
Like dust in the blinding dayU
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I would know thy silver strainV
In the shouts of the starry crowdM
When the souls of thy changing menW
Rise up like an incense cloudM
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I would know thy brightening lobesX
And the lap of thy watery barsY
Though space were choked with globesX
And the night were blind with starsY
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From the folds of my unknown placeS
When my soul is glad and freeB
I will slide by my God's sweet graceS
And hang like a cloud on theeB
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When the pale moon sits at nightM
By the brink of her shining wellZ
Laving the rings of her widening lightM
On the slopes of the weltering swellZ
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I will fall like a wind from the westM
On the locks of thy prancing streamsA2
And sow the fields of thy restM
With handfuls of sweet young dreamsA2
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When the sound of thy children's cryB2
Hath stricken thy gladness dumbC2
I will kindle thine upward eyeB2
With a laugh from the years that comeC2
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Far above where the loud wind ravesF
On a wing as still as snowD2
I will watch the grind of the curly wavesF
As they bite the coasts belowD2
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When the shining ranks of the frostM
Draw down on the glistening woldM
In the mail of a fairy hostM
And the earth is mossed with coldM
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Till the plates that shine aboutM
Close up with a filmy dinE2
Till the air is frozen outM
And the stars are frozen inE2
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I will often stoop to rangeF2
On the fields where my youth was spentM
And my feet shall smite the cliffs of changeF2
With the rush of a steep descentM
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And my glowing soul shall burnG2
With a love that knows no pallH2
And my eye of worship turnG2
Upon him that fashioned allI2
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When the sounding waves of strifeJ2
Have died on the Godhead's seaB
And thy life is a purer lifeJ2
That nurses a life in meB

George Macdonald



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