To Seem The Stranger Lies My Lot, My Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBAACDA EFEFEF| To seem the stranger lies my lot my life | A |
| Among strangers Father and mother dear | B |
| Brothers and sisters are in Christ not near | B |
| And he my peace my parting sword and strife | A |
| England whose honour O all my heart woos wife | A |
| To my creating thought would neither hear | C |
| Me were I pleading plead nor do I I wear | D |
| y of idle a being but by where wars are rife | A |
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| I am in Ireland now now I am at a th iacute rd | E |
| Remove Not but in all removes I can | F |
| Kind love both give and get Only what word | E |
| Wisest my heart breeds dark heaven's baffling ban | F |
| Bars or hell's spell thwarts This to hoard unheard | E |
| Heard unheeded leaves me a lonely began | F |
Gerard Manley Hopkins
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