The Stronghold Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDC EEFGDG HIJJKLMFNF| Quieter than any twilight | A |
| Shed over earth's last deserts | B |
| Quiet and vast and shadowless | B |
| Is that unfounded keep | C |
| Higher than the roof of the night's high chamber | D |
| Deep as the shaft of sleep | C |
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| And solitude will not cry there | E |
| Melancholy will not brood there | E |
| Hatred with its sharp corroding pain | F |
| And fear will not come there at all | G |
| Never will a tear or a heart ache enter | D |
| Over that enchanted wall | G |
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| But O if you find that castle | H |
| Draw back your foot from the gateway | I |
| Let not its peace invite you | J |
| Let not its offerings tempt you | J |
| For faded and decayed like a garment | K |
| Love to a dust will have fallen | L |
| And song and laughter will have gone with sorrow | M |
| And hope will have gone with pain | F |
| And of all the throbbing heart's high courage | N |
| Nothing will remain | F |
John Collings Squire, Sir
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