Voices Of Hope Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AAA BBB CCC DDD EEE FFF GGG HHH IJI KKK LMM NON PPP QQQ RRR KKK SST UUU VVW| It is the hither side O Hope | A |
| And afternoon our shadows slope | A |
| Backward along the mountain cope | A |
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| The early morning was so sweet | B |
| We seemed to climb with winged feet | B |
| Like moving vapors fine and fleet | B |
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| Not more elastic poised and swung | C |
| Harebell or yellow adder's tongue | C |
| Nor blither any bird that sung | C |
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| Thy light foot bent not any stem | D |
| Of frailest plant whose diadem | D |
| In passing kissed thy garment's hem | D |
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| O Hope so near me and so bright | E |
| Thy foot above me on the height | E |
| I might not touch thy garments white | E |
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| Thy lifted face so fair so rapt | F |
| Like sunshine rolled and overlapped | F |
| Cliff slope and tall peak thunder capped | F |
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| Thy voice to me like silver brooks | G |
| Down dropped from secret mountain nooks | G |
| Still drew me like thy radiant looks | G |
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| Nor scorching sun nor beating rain | H |
| Nor soil nor grime nor travel stain | H |
| With thee were weariness or pain | H |
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| But now it is the afternoon | I |
| Behind the mountain summit's gloom | J |
| Before night's shadows gather soon | I |
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| O Hope where art thou rough and steep | K |
| The way has grown I faint and weep | K |
| Beside me torrents toss and leap | K |
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| And far below unseen for tears | L |
| The river where life disappears | M |
| Uplifts its thunder to my ears | M |
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| Canst thou with thy serener eyes | N |
| Over the flood God's paradise | O |
| Behold in awful beauty rise | N |
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| Far off I seem to see thee stand | P |
| Shading rapt eyes with radiant hand | P |
| To scan that unknown glorious land | P |
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| The glory of that unseen place | Q |
| Gathers and brightens o'er thy face | Q |
| And fills thy looks with tender grace | Q |
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| O Hope divine ' I would behold | R |
| Those shining spires those streets of gold | R |
| But ah the waves are deadly cold | R |
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| I hear the thunder and the sweep | K |
| Of waves deep calleth unto deep | K |
| The pathway ends abrupt and steep | K |
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| Yet soft beside that solemn shore | S |
| I hear thy voice above its roar | S |
| Life is a dream and it is o'er | T |
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| The night is past behold the day | U |
| O new born soul O child of clay | U |
| O bird uncaged and still astray | U |
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| Take through the universe thy road | V |
| All paths lead up to His abode | V |
| Converging at the Mount of God | W |
Kate Seymour Maclean
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