What? (to Ethel) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFCF HIJIII GBCBKB LMNMOM| At the golden gates of the visions | A |
| I knelt me adown one day | B |
| But sudden my prayer was a silence | C |
| For I heard from the Far away | B |
| The murmur of many voices | D |
| And a silvery censer's sway | B |
| - | |
| I bowed in awe and I listened | E |
| The deeps of my soul were stirred | F |
| But deepest of all was the meaning | G |
| Of the far off music I heard | F |
| And yet it was stiller than silence | C |
| Its notes were the Dream of a Word | F |
| - | |
| A word that is whispered in heaven | H |
| But cannot be heard below | I |
| It lives on the lips of the angels | J |
| Where'er their pure wings glow | I |
| Yet only the Dream of its Echo | I |
| Ever reaches this valley of woe | I |
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| But I know the word and its meaning | G |
| I reached to its height that day | B |
| When prayer sank into a silence | C |
| And my heart was so far away | B |
| But I may not murmur the music | K |
| Nor the word may my lips yet say | B |
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| But some day far in the future | L |
| And up from the dust of the dead | M |
| And out of my lips when speechless | N |
| The mystical word shall be said | M |
| 'Twill come to thee still as a spirit | O |
| When the soul of the bard has fled | M |
Abram Joseph Ryan
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