Thoughts Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EBFB GHGH IJIJ KBKB| By sound of name and touch of hand | A |
| Thro' ears that hear and eyes that see | B |
| We know each other in this land | A |
| How little must that knowledge be | B |
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| How souls are all the time alone | C |
| No spirit can another reach | D |
| They hide away in realms unknown | C |
| Like waves that never touch a beach | D |
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| We never know each other here | E |
| No soul can here another see | B |
| To know we need a light as clear | F |
| As that which fills eternity | B |
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| For here we walk by human light | G |
| But there the light of God is ours | H |
| Each day on earth is but a night | G |
| Heaven alone hath clear faced hours | H |
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| I call you thus you call me thus | I |
| Our mortal is the very bar | J |
| That parts forever each of us | I |
| As skies on high part star from star | J |
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| A name is nothing but a name | K |
| For that which else would nameless be | B |
| Until our souls in rapture claim | K |
| Full knowledge in eternity | B |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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