Supposed Confessions Of A Second-rate Sensitive Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCCAABDDEFGGHHFAIJ BJKCKCLMNMNL OPQRQQR BBMSTMUSPTVJWXYZWXQA 2PB2B2QB2B2QQ QC2B2C2QB2D2OQQQQB2B 2B2OD2E2MQQME2F2G2H2 I2H2G2GGF2I2I2B2B2HB 2 B2B2B2B2B2J2K2VL2M2V VVVB2B2 B2N2VVB2VN2VQN2VVN2V VQ OOOB2OO2VP2O2B2P2VVB 2VVVVQQVQ2VVVR2Q2VVV R2S2N2VS2VQN2QQB2K2V K2B2B2B2VO OB2B2O God my God have mercy now | A |
I faint I fall Men say that Thou | A |
Didst die for me for such as me | B |
Patient of ill and death and scorn | C |
And that my sin was as a thorn | C |
Among the thorns that girt Thy brow | A |
Wounding Thy soul That even now | A |
In this extremest misery | B |
Of ignorance I should require | D |
A sign and if a bolt of fire | D |
Would rive the slumbrous summer noon | E |
While I do pray to Thee alone | F |
Think my belief would stronger grow | G |
Is not my human pride brought low | G |
The boastings of my spirit still | H |
The joy I had in my free will | H |
All cold and dead and corpse like grown | F |
And what is left to me but Thou | A |
And faith in Thee Men pass me by | I |
Christians with happy countenances | J |
And children all seem full of Thee | B |
And women smile with saint like glances | J |
Like Thine own mother's when she bow'd | K |
Above Thee on that happy morn | C |
When angels spake to men aloud | K |
And Thou and peace to earth were born | C |
Good will to me as well as all | L |
I one of them my brothers they | M |
Brothers in Christ a world of peace | N |
And confidence day after day | M |
And trusts and hope till things should cease | N |
And then one Heaven receive us all | L |
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How sweet to have a common faith | O |
To hold a common scorn of death | P |
And at a burial to hear | Q |
The creaking cords which wound and eat | R |
Into my human heart whene'er | Q |
Earth goes to earth with grief not fear | Q |
With hopeful grief were passing sweet | R |
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Thrice happy state again to be | B |
The trustful infant on the knee | B |
Who lets his rosy fingers play | M |
About his mother's neck and knows | S |
Nothing beyond his mother's eyes | T |
They comfort him by night and day | M |
They light his little life alway | U |
He hath no thought of coming woes | S |
He hath no care of life or death | P |
Scarce outward signs of joy arise | T |
Because the Spirit of happiness | V |
And perfect rest so inward is | J |
And loveth so his innocent heart | W |
Her temple and her place of birth | X |
Where she would ever wish to dwell | Y |
Life of the fountain there beneath | Z |
Its salient springs and far apart | W |
Hating to wander out on earth | X |
Or breathe into the hollow air | Q |
Whose chillness would make visible | A2 |
Her subtil warm and golden breath | P |
Which mixing with the infant's blood | B2 |
Fulfils him with beatitude | B2 |
O sure it is a special care | Q |
Of God to fortify from doubt | B2 |
To arm in proof and guard about | B2 |
With triple mailed trust and clear | Q |
Delight the infant's dawning year | Q |
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Would that my gloomed fancy were | Q |
As thine my mother when with brows | C2 |
Propt on thy knees my hands upheld | B2 |
In thine I listen'd to thy vows | C2 |
For me outpour'd in holiest prayer | Q |
For me unworthy and beheld | B2 |
Thy mild deep eyes upraised that knew | D2 |
The beauty and repose of faith | O |
And the clear spirit shining thro' | Q |
O wherefore do we grow awry | Q |
From roots which strike so deep why dare | Q |
Paths in the desert Could not I | Q |
Bow myself down where thou hast knelt | B2 |
To the earth until the ice would melt | B2 |
Here and I feel as thou hast felt | B2 |
What devil had the heart to scathe | O |
Flowers thou hadst rear'd to brush the dew | D2 |
From thine own lily when thy grave | E2 |
Was deep my mother in the clay | M |
Myself Is it thus Myself Had I | Q |
So little love for thee But why | Q |
Prevail'd not thy pure prayers Why pray | M |
To one who heeds not who can save | E2 |
But will not Great in faith and strong | F2 |
Against the grief of circumstance | G2 |
Wert thou and yet unheard What if | H2 |
Thou pleadest still and seest me drive | I2 |
Thro' utter dark a full sail'd skiff | H2 |
Unpiloted i' the echoing dance | G2 |
Of reboant whirlwinds stooping low | G |
Unto the death not sunk I know | G |
At matins and at evensong | F2 |
That thou if thou wert yet alive | I2 |
In deep and daily prayers wouldst strive | I2 |
To reconcile me with thy God | B2 |
Albeit my hope is gray and cold | B2 |
At heart thou wouldest murmur still | H |
'Bring this lamb back into Thy fold | B2 |
My Lord if so it be Thy will ' | - |
Wouldst tell me I must brook the rod | B2 |
And chastisement of human pride | B2 |
That pride the sin of devils stood | B2 |
Betwixt me and the light of God | B2 |
That hitherto I had defied | B2 |
And had rejected God that grace | J2 |
Would drop from His o'er brimming love | K2 |
As manna on my wilderness | V |
If I would pray that God would move | L2 |
And strike the hard hard rock and thence | M2 |
Sweet in their utmost bitterness | V |
Would issue tears of penitence | V |
Which would keep green hope's life Alas | V |
I think that pride hath now no place | V |
Nor sojourn in me I am void | B2 |
Dark formless utterly destroyed | B2 |
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Why not believe then Why not yet | B2 |
Anchor thy frailty there where man | N2 |
Hath moor'd and rested Ask the sea | V |
At midnight when the crisp slope waves | V |
After a tempest rib and fret | B2 |
The broad imbased beach why he | V |
Slumbers not like a mountain tarn | N2 |
Wherefore his ridges are not curls | V |
And ripples of an inland mere | Q |
Wherefore he moaneth thus nor can | N2 |
Draw down into his vexed pools | V |
All that blue heaven which hues and paves | V |
The other I am too forlorn | N2 |
Too shaken my own weakness fools | V |
My judgment and my spirit whirls | V |
Moved from beneath with doubt and fear | Q |
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'Yet ' said I in my morn of youth | O |
The unsunn'd freshness of my strength | O |
When I went forth in quest of truth | O |
'It is man's privilege to doubt | B2 |
If so be that from doubt at length | O |
Truth may stand forth unmoved of change | O2 |
An image with profulgent brows | V |
And perfect limbs as from the storm | P2 |
Of running fires and fluid range | O2 |
Of lawless airs at last stood out | B2 |
This excellence and solid form | P2 |
Of constant beauty For the ox | V |
Feeds in the herb and sleeps or fills | V |
The horned valleys all about | B2 |
And hollows of the fringed hills | V |
In summer heats with placid lows | V |
Unfearing till his own blood flows | V |
About his hoof And in the flocks | V |
The lamb rejoiceth in the year | Q |
And raceth freely with his fere | Q |
And answers to his mother's calls | V |
From the flower'd furrow In a time | Q2 |
Of which he wots not run short pains | V |
Thro' his warm heart and then from whence | V |
He knows not on his light there falls | V |
A shadow and his native slope | R2 |
Where he was wont to leap and climb | Q2 |
Floats from his sick and filmed eyes | V |
And something in the darkness draws | V |
His forehead earthward and he dies | V |
Shall man live thus in joy and hope | R2 |
As a young lamb who cannot dream | S2 |
Living but that he shall live on | N2 |
Shall we not look into the laws | V |
Of life and death and things that seem | S2 |
And things that be and analyze | V |
Our double nature and compare | Q |
All creeds till we have found the one | N2 |
If one there be ' Ay me I fear | Q |
All may not doubt but everywhere | Q |
Some must clasp idols Yet my God | B2 |
Whom call I idol Let Thy dove | K2 |
Shadow me over and my sins | V |
Be unremember'd and Thy love | K2 |
Enlighten me O teach me yet | B2 |
Somewhat before the heavy clod | B2 |
Weighs on me and the busy fret | B2 |
Of that sharp headed worm begins | V |
In the gross blackness underneath | O |
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O weary life O weary death | O |
O spirit and heart made desolate | B2 |
O damned vacillating state | B2 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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