Earth The Healer, Earth The Keeper Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI DJDJ AKAK LLLL MNMN MLML AOAO HLHL PQPQ LALA ALAL ALAL RLRL PLPL MSMS HHHH| So swift the hours are moving | A |
| Unto the time unproved | B |
| Farewell my love unloving | A |
| Farewell my love beloved | C |
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| What are we not glad hearted | D |
| Is there no deed to do | E |
| Is not all fear departed | D |
| And Spring tide blossomed new | E |
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| The sails swell out above us | F |
| The sea ridge lifts the keel | G |
| For They have called who love us | F |
| Who bear the gifts that heal | G |
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| A crown for him that winneth | H |
| A bed for him that fails | I |
| A glory that beginneth | H |
| In never dying tales | I |
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| Yet now the pain is ended | D |
| And the glad hand grips the sword | J |
| Look on thy life amended | D |
| And deal out due award | J |
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| Think of the thankless morning | A |
| The gifts of noon unused | K |
| Think of the eve of scorning | A |
| The night of prayer refused | K |
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| And yet The life before it | L |
| Dost thou remember aught | L |
| What terrors shivered o'er it | L |
| Born from the hell of thought | L |
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| And this that cometh after | M |
| How dost thou live and dare | N |
| To meet its empty laughter | M |
| To face its friendless care | N |
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| In fear didst thou desire | M |
| At peace dost thou regret | L |
| The wasting of the fire | M |
| The tangling of the net | L |
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| Love came and gat fair greeting | A |
| Love went and left no shame | O |
| Shall both the twilights meeting | A |
| The summer sunlight blame | O |
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| What cometh love and goeth | H |
| Like the dark night's empty wind | L |
| Because thy folly soweth | H |
| The harvest of the blind | L |
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| Hast thou slain love with sorrow | P |
| Have thy tears quenched the sun | Q |
| Nay even yet tomorrow | P |
| Shall many a deed be done | Q |
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| This twilight sea thou sailest | L |
| Has it grown dim and black | A |
| For that wherein thou failest | L |
| And the story of thy lack | A |
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| Peace then for thine old grieving | A |
| Was born of Earth the kind | L |
| And the sad tale thou art leaving | A |
| Earth shall not leave behind | L |
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| Peace for that joy abiding | A |
| Whereon thou layest hold | L |
| Earth keepeth for a tiding | A |
| For the day when this is old | L |
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| Thy soul and life shall perish | R |
| And thy name as last night's wind | L |
| But Earth the deed shall cherish | R |
| That thou today shalt find | L |
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| And all thy joy and sorrow | P |
| So great but yesterday | L |
| So light a thing tomorrow | P |
| Shall never pass away | L |
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| Lo lo the dawn blink yonder | M |
| The sunrise draweth nigh | S |
| And men forget to wonder | M |
| That they were born to die | S |
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| Then praise the deed that wendeth | H |
| Through the daylight and the mirth | H |
| The tale that never endeth | H |
| Whoso may dwell on earth | H |
William Morris
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