At The Gate Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEDE FGHFHG IJKJKJ LMNLNL OPQOQO RSGRGRFor behold the kingdom of God is within you | A |
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Thy kingdom here | B |
Lord can it be | C |
Searching and seeking everywhere | D |
For many a year | E |
Thy kingdom come has been my prayer | D |
Was that dear kingdom all the while so near | E |
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Blinded and dull | F |
With selfish sin | G |
Have I been sitting at the gates | H |
Called Beautiful | F |
Where Thy fair angel stands and waits | H |
With hand upon the lock to let me in | G |
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Was I the wall | I |
Which barred the way | J |
Darkening the glory of Thy grace | K |
Hiding the ray | J |
Which shining out as from Thy very face | K |
Had shown to other men the perfect day | J |
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Was I the bar | L |
Which shut me out | M |
From the full joyance which they taste | N |
Whose spirits are | L |
Within Thy Paradise embraced | N |
Thy blessed Paradise which seemed so far | L |
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The vision swells | O |
I seem to catch | P |
Celestial breezes rustling low | Q |
The asphodels | O |
Where singing softly ever to and fro | Q |
Moves each fair saint who in Thy presence dwells | O |
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Let me not sit | R |
Another hour | S |
Idly awaiting what is mine to win | G |
Blinded in wit | R |
Lord Jesus rend these walls of self and sin | G |
Beat down the gate that I may enter it | R |
Susan Coolidge (sarah Chauncey Woolsey)
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