The Miracle Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABACDD EFEFGG HIHIJJ DFDFKK LMLMNN| Who beckons the green ivy up | A |
| Its solitary tower of stone | B |
| What spirit lures the bindweed's cup | A |
| Unfaltering on | C |
| Calls even the starry lichen to climb | D |
| By agelong inches endless Time | D |
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| Who bids the hollyhock uplift | E |
| Her rod of fast sealed buds on high | F |
| Fling wide her petals silent swift | E |
| Lovely to the sky | F |
| Since as she kindled so she will fade | G |
| Flower above flower in squalor laid | G |
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| Ever the heavy billow rears | H |
| All its sea length in green hushed wall | I |
| But totters as the shore it nears | H |
| Foams to its fall | I |
| Where was its mark on what vain quest | J |
| Rose that great water from its rest | J |
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| So creeps ambition on so climb | D |
| Man's vaunting thoughts He set on high | F |
| Forgets his birth small space brief time | D |
| That he shall die | F |
| Dreams blindly in his dark still air | K |
| Consumes his strength strips himself bare | K |
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| Rejects delight ease pleasure hope | L |
| Seeking in vain but seeking yet | M |
| Past earthly promise earthly scope | L |
| On one aim set | M |
| As if like Chaucer's child he thought | N |
| All but O Alma nought | N |
Walter De La Mare
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