Exile From God Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEDE FGFG HEHE| I do not fear to lay my body down | A |
| In death to share | B |
| The life of the dark earth and lose my own | C |
| If God is there | B |
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| I have so loved all sense of Him sweet might | D |
| Of color and sound | E |
| His tangible loveliness and living light | D |
| That robes me 'round | E |
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| If to His heart in the hushed grave and dim | F |
| We sink more near | G |
| It shall be well living we rest in Him | F |
| Only I fear | G |
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| Lest from my God in lonely death I lapse | H |
| And the dumb clod | E |
| Lose him for God is life and death perhaps | H |
| Exile from God | E |
John Hall Wheelock
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