On The Edge Of The Wilderness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCC D E EEE D A EEE D E FFF D A EEE D E EEE D A EEE D E GGG D A HHH D E III D A EEE D E JJJ D A KKK D E LLL D A EEE D E MMM D A NNN D E OOP D A QQQ D E RRS D| Puellae | A |
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| Whence comest thou and whither goest thou | B |
| Abide abide longer the shadows grow | C |
| What hopest thou the dark to thee will show | C |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Why should I name the land across the sea | E |
| Wherein I first took hold on misery | E |
| Why should I name the land that flees from me | E |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| What wilt thou do within the desert place | E |
| Whereto thou turnest now thy careful face | E |
| Stay but a while to tell us of thy case | E |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| What nigh the journey s end shall I abide | F |
| When in the waste mine own love wanders wide | F |
| When from all men for me she still doth hide | F |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Nay nay but rather she forgetteth thee | E |
| To sit upon the shore of some warm sea | E |
| Or in green gardens where sweet fountains be | E |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Will ye then keep me from the wilderness | E |
| Where I at least alone with my distress | E |
| The quiet land of changing dreams may bless | E |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Forget the false forgetter and be wise | E |
| And mid these clinging hands and loving eyes | E |
| Dream not in vain thou knowest paradise | E |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Ah with your sweet eyes shorten not the day | G |
| Nor let your gentle hands my journey stay | G |
| Perchance love is not wholly cast away | G |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Pluck love away as thou wouldst pluck a thorn | H |
| From out thy flesh for why shouldst thou be born | H |
| To bear a life so wasted and forlorn | H |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Yea why then was I born since hope is pain | I |
| And life a lingering death and faith but vain | I |
| And love the loss of all I seemed to gain | I |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Dost thou believe that this shall ever be | E |
| That in our land no face thou e er shalt see | E |
| No voice thou e er shalt hear to gladden thee | E |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| No longer do I know of good or bad | J |
| I have forgotten that I once was glad | J |
| I do but chase a dream that I have had | J |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Stay take one image for thy dreamful night | K |
| Come look at her who in the world s despite | K |
| Weeps for delaying love and lost delight | K |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Mock me not till to morrow Mock the dead | L |
| They will not heed it or turn round the head | L |
| To note who faithless are and who are wed | L |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| We mock thee not Hast thou not heard of those | E |
| Whose faithful love the loved heart holds so close | E |
| That death must wait till one word lets it loose | E |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| I hear you not the wind from off the waste | M |
| Sighs like a song that bids me make good haste | M |
| The wave of sweet forgetfulness to taste | M |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Come back like such a singer is the wind | N |
| As to a sad tune sings fair words and kind | N |
| That he with happy tears all eyes may blind | N |
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| Abide abide for we are happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| Did I not hear her sweet voice cry from far | O |
| That o er the lonely waste fair fields there are | O |
| Fair days that know not any change or care | P |
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| Let me depart since ye are happy here | D |
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| Puellae | A |
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| Oh no not far thou heardest her but nigh | Q |
| Nigh twixt the waste s edge and the darkling sky | Q |
| Turn back again too soon it is to die | Q |
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| Abide a little while be happy here | D |
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| Amans | E |
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| How with the lapse of lone years could I strive | R |
| And can I die now that thou biddest live | R |
| What joy this space twixt birth and death can give | S |
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| Can we depart who are so happy here | D |
William Morris
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