The Holy Land. From Lamartine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCE FGFGHIHI JIKIFLFL MNMNHIHI NLNLOHOH NLNLNNNN| I have not felt o'er seas of sand | A |
| The rocking of the desert bark | B |
| Nor laved at Hebron's fount my hand | A |
| By Hebron's palm trees cool and dark | B |
| Nor pitched my tent at even fall | C |
| On dust where Job of old has lain | D |
| Nor dreamed beneath its canvas wall | C |
| The dream of Jacob o'er again | E |
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| One vast world page remains unread | F |
| How shine the stars in Chaldea's sky | G |
| How sounds the reverent pilgrim's tread | F |
| How beats the heart with God so nigh | G |
| How round gray arch and column lone | H |
| The spirit of the old time broods | I |
| And sighs in all the winds that moan | H |
| Along the sandy solitudes | I |
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| In thy tall cedars Lebanon | J |
| I have not heard the nations' cries | I |
| Nor seen thy eagles stooping down | K |
| Where buried Tyre in ruin lies | I |
| The Christian's prayer I have not said | F |
| In Tadmor's temples of decay | L |
| Nor startled with my dreary tread | F |
| The waste where Memnon's empire lay | L |
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| Nor have I from thy hallowed tide | M |
| O Jordan heard the low lament | N |
| Like that sad wail along thy side | M |
| Which Israel's mournful prophet sent | N |
| Nor thrilled within that grotto lone | H |
| Where deep in night the Bard of Kings | I |
| Felt hands of fire direct his own | H |
| And sweep for God the conscious strings | I |
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| I have not climbed to Olivet | N |
| Nor laid me where my Saviour lay | L |
| And left His trace of tears as yet | N |
| By angel eyes unwept away | L |
| Nor watched at midnight's solemn time | O |
| The garden where His prayer and groan | H |
| Wrung by His sorrow and our crime | O |
| Rose to One listening ear alone | H |
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| I have not kissed the rock hewn grot | N |
| Where in His mother's arms He lay | L |
| Nor knelt upon the sacred spot | N |
| Where last His footsteps pressed the clay | L |
| Nor looked on that sad mountain head | N |
| Nor smote my sinful breast where wide | N |
| His arms to fold the world He spread | N |
| And bowed His head to bless and died | N |
John Greenleaf Whittier
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