The Seekers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BB CC DE FF GG HH II AAFriends and loves we have none nor wealth nor blessed abode | A |
But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road | A |
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Not for us are content and quiet and peace of mind | B |
For we go seeking a city that we shall never find | B |
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There is no solace on earth for us for such as we | C |
Who search for a hidden city that we shall never see | C |
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Only the road and the dawn the sun the wind and the rain | D |
And the watch fire under stars and sleep and the road again | E |
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We seek the City of God and the haunt where beauty dwells | F |
And we find the noisy mart and the sound of burial bells | F |
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Never the golden city where radiant people meet | G |
But the dolorous town where mourners are going about the street | G |
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We travel the dusty road till the light of the day is dim | H |
And sunset shows us spires away on the world's rim | H |
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We travel from dawn to dusk till the day is past and by | I |
Seeking the Holy City beyond the rim of the sky | I |
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Friends and loves we have none nor wealth nor blest abode | A |
But the hope of the City of God at the other end of the road | A |
John Masefield
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