Waiting Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBEB FGFH IJIJ KBKB| Serene I fold my hands and wait | A |
| Nor care for wind nor tide nor sea | B |
| I rave no more 'gainst time or fate | A |
| For lo my own shall come to me | B |
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| I stay my haste I make delays | C |
| For what avails this eager pace | D |
| I stand amid the eternal ways | C |
| And what is mine shall know my face | D |
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| Asleep awake by night or day | E |
| The friends I seek are seeking me | B |
| No wind can drive my bark astray | E |
| Nor change the tide of destiny | B |
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| What matter if I stand alone | F |
| I wait with joy the coming years | G |
| My heart shall reap where it hath sown | F |
| And garner up its fruit of tears | H |
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| The waters know their own and draw | I |
| The brook that springs in yonder height | J |
| So flows the good with equal law | I |
| Unto the soul of pure delight | J |
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| The stars come nightly to the sky | K |
| The tidal wave unto the sea | B |
| Nor time nor space nor deep nor high | K |
| Can keep my own away from me | B |
John Burroughs
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