After Our Likeness. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GFFG FHHF IEEI FJKF LFFMNKKN GEEG FHHF| Before me now a little picture lies | A |
| A little shadow of a childish face | B |
| Childishly sweet yet with the dawning grace | B |
| Of thought and wisdom on her lips and eyes | A |
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| Fair oval broad brow'd face small delicate head | C |
| Transparent skin with blue veins shining through | D |
| All the soft outlines beautiful and true | D |
| Bring me the echo of the words God said | C |
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| Made in our image sure 'tis that we see | E |
| God's likeness in the fair face of a child | F |
| By the world's sin and passion undefiled | F |
| Ay as I look it seems quite plain to me | E |
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| The light wherein the little features shine | G |
| Strange mystic light so undefined and faint | F |
| So far too pure for any words to paint | F |
| 'Tis a reflection of the Face divine | G |
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| Some day the earthly shadows will be cast | F |
| Across that sunshine it may be to dim | H |
| A while the visible countenance of Him | H |
| But 'twill be there the likeness to the last | F |
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| Some day the lucid waters in which lie | I |
| Pictured those glorious lineaments will be | E |
| Stirred up and troubled like a stormy sea | E |
| But they will yet re settle by and by | I |
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| They will re settle when the soul is still'd | F |
| Its passions its wild longings and its pain | J |
| The pure reflection will shine out again | K |
| When earth's hopes are relinquish'd unfulfill'd | F |
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| They will re settle in those after years | L |
| When life's hard lessons have been conned and learn'd | F |
| Then this child's beauty will have all return'd | F |
| More lovely for the trouble and the tears | M |
| They will re settle in the calm of death | N |
| When the sweet eyes are laid asleep and when | K |
| The heart is hush'd Truly God's likeness then | K |
| The mirror clear unsullied by a breath | N |
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| Ah while I look and trace each tender line | G |
| I think most of the day when I shall see | E |
| The dear face in that perfect purity | E |
| Its mortal features clothed with the divine | G |
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| This self same face but with the image bright | F |
| Nevermore undefined and faint and dim | H |
| This self same face yet like the face of Him | H |
| In glory and in beauty infinite | F |
Ada Cambridge
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