Thekla's Answer Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG CHCH CDCD| Where I am thou ask'st and where I wended | A |
| When my fleeting shadow pass'd from thee | B |
| Am I not concluded now and ended | A |
| Have not life and love been granted me | B |
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| Ask where now those nightingales are singing | C |
| Who of late on the soft nights of May | D |
| Set thine ears with soul fraught music ringing | C |
| Only while their love liv'd lasted they | D |
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| Find I him from whom I had to sever | E |
| Doubt it not we met and we are one | F |
| There where what is join'd is join'd for ever | E |
| There where tears are never more to run | F |
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| There thou too shalt live with us together | E |
| When thou too hast borne the love we bore | G |
| There from sin deliver'd dwells my Father | E |
| Track'd by Murder's bloody sword no more | G |
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| There he feels it was no dream deceiving | C |
| Lur'd him starwards to uplift his eye | H |
| God doth match his gifts to man's believing | C |
| Believe and thou shalt find the Holy nigh | H |
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| All thou augurest here of lovely seeming | C |
| There shall find fulfilment in its day | D |
| Dare O Friend be wandering dare be dreaming | C |
| Lofty thought lies oft in childish play | D |
Matthew Arnold
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