The Hour Of The King Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HIHI JKJK ILIM| Who would think this quiet breather | A |
| From the world had taken flight | B |
| Yet within the form we see there | C |
| Wakes the golden King to night | B |
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| Out upon the face of faces | D |
| He looked forth before his sleep | E |
| Now he knows the starry races | D |
| Haunters of the ancient deep | E |
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| On the Bird of Diamond Glory | F |
| Floats in mystic floods of song | G |
| As he lists Time's triple story | F |
| Seems but as a day is long | G |
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| From the mightier Adam falling | H |
| To his image dwarfed in clay | I |
| He will at our voices calling | H |
| Come to this side of the day | I |
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| When he wakes the dreamy hearted | J |
| He will know not whence he came | K |
| And the light from which he parted | J |
| Be the seraph's sword of flame | K |
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| And behind it hosts supernal | I |
| Guarding the lost paradise | L |
| And the tree of life eternal | I |
| From the weeping human eyes | M |
George William Russell
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