Fainting By The Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDD EEFFGGH IIJKLLMN HOPPQQR SSTTUUAA VVWWQQX VVYYZZA2 EEB2B2QQC2C2| Swarthy wastelands wide and woodless glittering miles and miles away | A |
| Where the south wind seldom wanders and the winters will not stay | A |
| Lurid wastelands pent in silence thick with hot and thirsty sighs | B |
| Where the scanty thorn leaves twinkle with their haggard hopeless eyes | B |
| Furnaced wastelands hunched with hillocks like to stony billows rolled | C |
| Where the naked flats lie swirling like a sea of darkened gold | C |
| Burning wastelands glancing upward with a weird and vacant stare | D |
| Where the languid heavens quiver o'er red depths of stirless air | D |
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| 'Oh my brother I am weary of this wildering waste of sand | E |
| In the noontide we can never travel to the promised land | E |
| Lo the desert broadens round us glaring wildly in my face | F |
| With long leagues of sunflame on it oh the barren barren place | F |
| See behind us gleams a green plot shall we thither turn and rest | G |
| Till a cold wind flutters over till the day is down the west | G |
| I would follow but I cannot Brother let me here remain | H |
| For the heart is dead within me and I may not rise again ' | - |
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| 'Wherefore stay to talk of fainting rouse thee for awhile my friend | I |
| Evening hurries on our footsteps and this journey soon will end | I |
| Wherefore stay to talk of fainting when the sun with sinking fire | J |
| Smites the blocks of broken thunder blackening yonder craggy spire | K |
| Even now the far off landscape broods and fills with coming change | L |
| And a withered moon grows brighter bending o'er that shadowed range | L |
| At the feet of grassy summits sleeps a water calm and clear | M |
| There is surely rest beyond it Comrade wherefore tarry here | N |
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| 'Yet a little longer struggle we have walked a wilder plain | H |
| And have met more troubles trust me than we e'er shall meet again | O |
| Can you think of all the dangers you and I are living through | P |
| With a soul so weak and fearful with the doubts I never knew | P |
| Dost thou not remember that the thorns are clustered with the rose | Q |
| And that every Zin like border may a pleasant land enclose | Q |
| Oh across these sultry deserts many a fruitful scene we'll find | R |
| And the blooms we gather shall be worth the wounds they leave behind ' | - |
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| 'Ah my brother it is useless See o'erburdened with their load | S |
| All the friends who went before us fall or falter by the road | S |
| We have come a weary distance seeking what we may not get | T |
| And I think we are but children chasing rainbows through the wet | T |
| Tell me not of vernal valleys Is it well to hold a reed | U |
| Out for drowning men to clutch at in the moments of their need | U |
| Go thy journey on without me it is better I should stay | A |
| Since my life is like an evening fading swooning fast away | A |
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| 'Where are all the springs you talked of Have I not with pleading mouth | V |
| Looked to Heaven through a silence stifled in the crimson drouth | V |
| Have I not with lips unsated watched to see the fountains burst | W |
| Where I searched the rocks for cisterns And they only mocked my thirst | W |
| Oh I dreamt of countries fertile bright with lakes and flashing rills | Q |
| Leaping from their shady caverns streaming round a thousand hills | Q |
| Leave me brother all is fruitless barren measureless and dry | X |
| And my God will never help me though I pray and faint and die ' | - |
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| 'Up I tell thee this is idle Oh thou man of little faith | V |
| Doubting on the verge of Aidenn turning now to covet death | V |
| By the fervent hopes within me by the strength which nerves my soul | Y |
| By the heart that yearns to help thee we shall live and reach the goal | Y |
| Rise and lean thy weight upon me Life is fair and God is just | Z |
| And He yet will show us fountains if we only look and trust | Z |
| Oh I know it and He leads us to the glens of stream and shade | A2 |
| Where the low sweet waters gurgle round the banks which cannot fade ' | - |
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| Thus he spake my friend and brother and he took me by the hand | E |
| And I think we walked the desert till the night was on the land | E |
| Then we came to flowery hollows where we heard a far off stream | B2 |
| Singing in the moony twilight like the rivers of my dream | B2 |
| And the balmy winds came tripping softly through the pleasant trees | Q |
| And I thought they bore a murmur like a voice from sleeping seas | Q |
| So we travelled so we reached it and I never more will part | C2 |
| With the peace as calm as sunset folded round my weary heart | C2 |
Henry Kendall
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