Emptiness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCD EFEF GHGH IJKJ LMLM| Where there is nothing God comes in | A |
| The Very God has room enough | B |
| In the poor heart that's stripped so clean | C |
| Of earth and all the joys thereof | D |
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| I looked for shadow and the night | E |
| When Death had taken her Love away | F |
| But for the darkness there was light | E |
| And for the night clear floods of day | F |
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| Great light that filled it to the brim | G |
| And overflowed and spilt around | H |
| Flowing from Him pulsing from Him | G |
| And all the heart was holy ground | H |
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| The earth the heavens cannot contain | I |
| Our God nor any starry place | J |
| But He who takes delight with men | K |
| Bounds Him within a narrow space | J |
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| And where her poor heart bleeds and breaks | L |
| Because her dearest Love is dead | M |
| The Lord of Life comes in and takes | L |
| Warm to His arms the piteous head | M |
Katharine Tynan
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