Your Place Is Heaven, A Stormless Nightless Home? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEDE FGHG GIGI JAJA JKJK| And there shall be no night there and they | A |
| need no candle and neither light of the sun | B |
| for the Lord God giveth them Light | C |
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| Your place is Heaven a stormless nightless home | D |
| Then we twain never more shall live together | E |
| Such days of gladdest thought as here whilom | D |
| We spent amid the change of earthly weather | E |
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| No white young day like hope smiles in yon east | F |
| Or westering cleaves wild omened scarlet glooms | G |
| No frosty breezes wreathe your woods in mist | H |
| No breaker o'er Heaven's glassy ocean booms | G |
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| No scents of delved dewy soil arise | G |
| No storm blue pall in state hangs hill or lea | I |
| No nightly seas swirl in grey agonies | G |
| Nor old Earth's sweet decays dye herb or tree | I |
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| Do wan gold tints shot on the midnight air | J |
| Herald the moon that loiters far away | A |
| Or moony sea gleams peep and beckon there | J |
| From sapphire dark or mystic silver grey | A |
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| No not the olden pleasure shall be there | J |
| We knew before the grass sprang o'er your breast | K |
| Yet that is yours which here hearts cannot share | J |
| Heaven's summer peace eterne and noonday rest | K |
Thomas Runciman
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