The King's High Way Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCA CCCCCCCAAA DDEEAFFGGA HHIJA AAKKA AAIJA| A wonderful Way is The King's High Way | A |
| It runs through the Nightlands up to the Day | A |
| From the wonderful WAS by the wonderful IS | B |
| To the still more wonderful IS TO BE | C |
| Runs The King's High Way | A |
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| Through the crooked by ways of history | C |
| Through the times that were dark with mystery | C |
| From the cities of man's captivity | C |
| By the shed of The Child's nativity | C |
| And over the hill by the crosses three | C |
| By the sign post of God's paternity | C |
| From Yesterday into Eternity | C |
| Runs The King's High Way | A |
| And wayfaring men who have strayed still say | A |
| It is good to travel The King's High Way | A |
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| Through the dim dark Valley of Death at times | D |
| To the peak of the Shining Mount it climbs | D |
| While wonders and glories and joys untold | E |
| To the eyes of the visioned each step unfold | E |
| On The King's High Way | A |
| And everywhere there are sheltering bowers | F |
| Plenished with fruits and radiant with flowers | F |
| Where the weary of body and soul may rest | G |
| As the steeps they breast to the beckoning crest | G |
| On The King's High Way | A |
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| And inns there are too of comforting mien | H |
| Where every guest is a King or a Queen | H |
| And room never lacks in the inns on that road | I |
| For the hosts are all gentle men like unto God | J |
| On The King's High Way | A |
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| The comrades one finds are all bound the same way | A |
| Their faces aglow in the light of the day | A |
| And never a quarrel is heard nor a brawl | K |
| They're the best of good company each one and all | K |
| On The King's High Way | A |
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| So gallantly travel The King's High Way | A |
| With hearts unperturbed and with souls high and gay | A |
| There is many a road that is much more the mode | I |
| But none that so surely leads straight up to God | J |
| As The King's High Way | A |
William Arthur Dunkerley (john Oxenham)
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