Three Doves Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABA CCAC DDBD EEDE FFBF DDDD| Seaward at morn my doves flew free | A |
| At eve they circled back to me | A |
| The first was Faith the second Hope | B |
| The third the whitest Charity | A |
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| Above the plunging surge's play | C |
| Dream like they hovered day by day | C |
| At last they turned and bore to me | A |
| Green signs of peace thro' nightfall gray | C |
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| No shore forlorn no loveliest land | D |
| Their gentle eyes had left unscanned | D |
| 'Mid hues of twilight heliotrope | B |
| Or daybreak fires by heaven breath fanned | D |
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| Quick visions of celestial grace | E |
| Hither they waft from earth's broad space | E |
| Kind thoughts for all humanity | D |
| They shine with radiance from God's face | E |
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| Ah since my heart they choose for home | F |
| Why loose them forth again to roam | F |
| Yet look they rise with loftier scope | B |
| They wheel in flight toward heaven's pure dome | F |
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| Fly messengers that find no rest | D |
| Save in such toil as makes man blest | D |
| Your home is God's immensity | D |
| We hold you but at his behest | D |
George Parsons Lathrop
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