Unanswered Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AA BCBD EE FGFG AA HIJI| Something compels me somewhere Yet I see | A |
| No clear command in Life's long mystery | A |
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| Oft have I flung myself beside my horse | B |
| To drink the water from the roadside mire | C |
| And felt the liquid through my being course | B |
| Stilling the anguish of my thirst's desire | D |
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| A simple want so easily allayed | E |
| After the burning march water and shade | E |
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| Also I lay against the loved one's heart | F |
| Finding fulfilment in that resting place | G |
| Feeling my longing quenched was but a part | F |
| Of nature's ceaseless striving for the race | G |
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| But now I know not what they would with me | A |
| Matter or Force or God if Gods there be | A |
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| I wait I question Nature heeds me not | H |
| She does but urge in answer to my prayer | I |
| Arise and do Alas she adds not what | J |
| Arise and go Alas she says not where | I |
Laurence Hope (adela Florence Cory Nicolson)
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