Joy's City Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC BBBBBB DBDBE BBBBBB FGFGH| Joy's City hath high battlements of gold | A |
| Joy's City hath her streets of gem wrought flow'rs | B |
| She hath her palaces high reared and bold | A |
| And tender shades of perfumed lily bowers | B |
| But ever day by day and ever night by night | C |
| An Angel measures still our City of Delight | C |
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| He hath a rule of gold and never stays | B |
| But ceaseless round the burnish'd ramparts glides | B |
| He measures minutes of her joyous days | B |
| Her walls her trees the music of her tides | B |
| The roundness of her buds Joy's own fair city lies | B |
| Known to its heart core by his stern and thoughtful eyes | B |
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| Above the sounds of timbrel and of song | D |
| Of greeting friends of lovers 'mid the flowers | B |
| The Angel's voice arises clear and strong | D |
| 'O City by so many leagues thy bow'rs | B |
| Stretch o'er the plains and in the fair high lifted blue | E |
| So many cubits rise thy tow'rs beyond the view ' | - |
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| Why dost thou Angel measure Joy's fair walls | B |
| Unceasing gliding by their burnish'd stones | B |
| Go rather measure Sorrow's gloomy halls | B |
| Her cypress bow'rs her charnel house of bones | B |
| Her groans her tears the rue in her jet chalices | B |
| But leave unmeasured more Joy's fairy palaces | B |
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| The Angel spake 'Joy hath her limits set | F |
| But Sorrow hath no bounds Joy is a guest | G |
| Perchance may enter but no heart puls'd yet | F |
| Where Sorrow did not lay her down to rest | G |
| She hath no city by so many leagues confin'd | H |
| I cannot measure bounds where there are none to find ' | - |
Isabella Valancy Crawford
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