Schoolgirls Hastening Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGHFear it has faded and the night | A |
The bells all peal the hour of nine | B |
The schoolgirls hastening through the light | A |
Touch the unknowable Divine | B |
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What leavening in my heart would bide | C |
Full dreams a thousand deep are there | D |
All luminants succumb beside | C |
The unbound melody of hair | D |
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Joy the long timorous takes the flute | E |
Valiant with colour songs are born | F |
Love the impatient absolute | E |
Lives as a Saviour in the morn | F |
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Get thou behind me Shadow Death | G |
Oh ye Eternities delay | H |
Morning is with me and the breath | G |
Of schoolgirls hastening down the way | H |
John Shaw Neilson
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