De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCDEBFGHIJKLMNOPGQRS TLUVW BXWBYZBMJ A2LB2C2D2E2F2G2H2I2J 2K2MGUL2M2N2O2P2Q2H2 UH2H2H2U H2H2H2U| The Two Greetings | A |
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| Out of the deep my child out of the deep | B |
| Where all that was to be in all that was | C |
| Whirl'd for a million ons thro' the vast | D |
| Waste dawn of multitudinous eddying light | E |
| Out of the deep my child out of the deep | B |
| Thro' all this changing world of changeless law | F |
| And every phase of ever heightening life | G |
| And nine long months of antenatal gloom | H |
| With this last moon this crescent her dark orb | I |
| Touch'd with earth's light thou comest darling boy | J |
| Our own a babe in lineament and limb | K |
| Perfect and prophet of the perfect man | L |
| Whose face and form are hers and mine in one | M |
| Indissolubly married like our love | N |
| Live and be happy in thyself and serve | O |
| This mortal race thy kin so well that men | P |
| May bless thee as we bless thee O young life | G |
| Breaking with laughter from the dark and may | Q |
| The fated channel where thy motion lives | R |
| Be prosperously shaped and sway thy course | S |
| Along the years of haste and random youth | T |
| Unshatter'd then full current thro' full man | L |
| And last in kindly curves with gentlest fall | U |
| By quiet field a slowly dying power | V |
| To that last deep where we and thou are still | W |
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| Out of the deep my child out of the deep | B |
| From that great deep before our world begins | X |
| Whereon the Spirit of God moves as he will | W |
| Out of the deep my child out of the deep | B |
| From that true world within the world we see | Y |
| Whereof our world is but the bounding shore | Z |
| Out of the deep Spirit out of the deep | B |
| With this ninth moon that sends the hidden sun | M |
| Down yon dark sea thou comest darling boy | J |
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| For in the world which is not ours They said | A2 |
| 'Let us make man' and that which should be man | L |
| From that one light no man can look upon | B2 |
| Drew to this shore lit by the suns and moons | C2 |
| And all the shadows O dear Spirit half lost | D2 |
| In thine own shadow and this fleshly sign | E2 |
| That thou art thou who wailest being born | F2 |
| And banish'd into mystery and the pain | G2 |
| Of this divisible indivisible world | H2 |
| Among the numerable innumerable | I2 |
| Sun sun and sun thro' finite infinite space | J2 |
| In finite infinite Time our mortal veil | K2 |
| And shatter'd phantom of that infinite One | M |
| Who made thee unconceivably Thyself | G |
| Out of His whole World self and all in all | U |
| Live thou and of the grain and husk the grape | L2 |
| And ivyberry choose and still depart | M2 |
| From death to death thro' life and life and find | N2 |
| Nearer and ever nearer Him who wrought | O2 |
| Not Matter nor the finite infinite | P2 |
| But this main miracle that thou art thou | Q2 |
| With power on thine own act and on the world | H2 |
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| The Human Cry | - |
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| Hallowed be Thy name Halleluiah | U |
| Infinite Ideality | H2 |
| Immeasurable Reality | H2 |
| Infinite Personality | H2 |
| Hallowed be Thy name Halleluiah | U |
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| We feel we are nothing for all is Thou and in Thee | H2 |
| We feel we are something that also has come from Thee | H2 |
| We know we are nothing but Thou wilt help us to be | H2 |
| Hallowed be Thy name Halleluiah | U |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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