Alleluia Height Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCCCDEDFEFGHGIHGIJ JKJLCCMLMNOPPMQRQ| Yea constant through the changeful year | A |
| This queenly Height commands our praise | B |
| To stand in meek unflinching hardihood | C |
| When fortune blows its storm of fright | C |
| And work to full effect that good | C |
| Resolved in open days of clearer sight | C |
| O this is worth | D |
| That daily sees the soul | E |
| To braver liberties give birth | D |
| That heeds not time's annoy | F |
| And hears surrounding voices roll | E |
| Perennial circumstance of joy | F |
| Then come not only when the springtime blows | G |
| The old familiar strangeness of its breath | H |
| Across the long lain snows | G |
| And chants her resurrected songs | I |
| About the tombs of death | H |
| Nor yet when summer glows | G |
| In roseate throngs | I |
| And works her plenitude of deeds | J |
| By tangled dells and waving meads | J |
| Come here in beauty's pilgrimage | K |
| Nor when the autumn reads | J |
| Illuminate her page | L |
| With tints of magicry besprent | C |
| Of iridescent wonderment | C |
| As scrolls in old monastic towers | M |
| Done in an earnest far off age | L |
| But choose to come in winter hours | M |
| To see how character can live | N |
| How noble character will give | O |
| Through desolate distress | P |
| And cold neglect's duress | P |
| The fulness of its powers | M |
| And win the soul its victor sign | Q |
| Yea come when in a peasant gown | R |
| Amid the ample banners of the pine | Q |
Michael Earls
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