The Temple Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACC DEDFF GHGII JKJCC LMNOO PQPRR| Enter the temple beautiful The house not made with hands | A |
| Rain washed and green wind swept and clean | B |
| Beneath the blue it stands | A |
| And no cathedral anywhere | C |
| Seemeth so holy or so fair | C |
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| It hath no heavy gabled roof no door with lock and key | D |
| No window bars shut out the stars | E |
| The aisles are wide and free | D |
| Here through the night each altar light | F |
| Is but a moon beam silver white | F |
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| Silently as the temple grew at Solomon's command | G |
| Still as things seem within a dream | H |
| This rose from out the land | G |
| And all the pillars grey and high | I |
| Lifted their arches to the sky | I |
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| Here is the perfume of the leaves the incense of the pines | J |
| The magic scent that hath been pent | K |
| Within the tangled vines | J |
| No censor filled with spices rare | C |
| E'er swung such sweetness on the air | C |
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| And all the golden gloom of it holdeth no haunting fear | L |
| For it is blessed and giveth rest | M |
| To those who enter here | N |
| Here in the evening who can know | O |
| But God Himself walks to and fro | O |
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| And music past all mastering within the chancel rings | P |
| None could desire a sweeter choir | Q |
| Than this that soars and sings | P |
| Till far the scented shadows creep | R |
| And quiet darkness bringeth sleep | R |
Virna Sheard
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