Supposed Confessions Of A Second-rate Sensitive Mind Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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O God my God have mercy nowA
I faint I fall Men say that ThouA
Didst die for me for such as meB
Patient of ill and death and scornC
And that my sin was as a thornC
Among the thorns that girt Thy browA
Wounding Thy soul That even nowA
In this extremest miseryB
Of ignorance I should requireD
A sign and if a bolt of fireD
Would rive the slumbrous summer noonE
While I do pray to Thee aloneF
Think my belief would stronger growG
Is not my human pride brought lowG
The boastings of my spirit stillH
The joy I had in my free willH
All cold and dead and corpse like grownF
And what is left to me but ThouA
And faith in Thee Men pass me byI
Christians with happy countenancesJ
And children all seem full of TheeB
And women smile with saint like glancesJ
Like Thine own mother's when she bow'dK
Above Thee on that happy mornC
When angels spake to men aloudK
And Thou and peace to earth were bornC
Good will to me as well as allL
I one of them my brothers theyM
Brothers in Christ a world of peaceN
And confidence day after dayM
And trusts and hope till things should ceaseN
And then one Heaven receive us allL
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How sweet to have a common faithO
To hold a common scorn of deathP
And at a burial to hearQ
The creaking cords which wound and eatR
Into my human heart whene'erQ
Earth goes to earth with grief not fearQ
With hopeful grief were passing sweetR
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Thrice happy state again to beB
The trustful infant on the kneeB
Who lets his rosy fingers playM
About his mother's neck and knowsS
Nothing beyond his mother's eyesT
They comfort him by night and dayM
They light his little life alwayU
He hath no thought of coming woesS
He hath no care of life or deathP
Scarce outward signs of joy ariseT
Because the Spirit of happinessV
And perfect rest so inward isJ
And loveth so his innocent heartW
Her temple and her place of birthX
Where she would ever wish to dwellY
Life of the fountain there beneathZ
Its salient springs and far apartW
Hating to wander out on earthX
Or breathe into the hollow airQ
Whose chillness would make visibleA2
Her subtil warm and golden breathP
Which mixing with the infant's bloodB2
Fulfils him with beatitudeB2
O sure it is a special careQ
Of God to fortify from doubtB2
To arm in proof and guard aboutB2
With triple mailed trust and clearQ
Delight the infant's dawning yearQ
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Would that my gloomed fancy wereQ
As thine my mother when with browsC2
Propt on thy knees my hands upheldB2
In thine I listen'd to thy vowsC2
For me outpour'd in holiest prayerQ
For me unworthy and beheldB2
Thy mild deep eyes upraised that knewD2
The beauty and repose of faithO
And the clear spirit shining thro'Q
O wherefore do we grow awryQ
From roots which strike so deep why dareQ
Paths in the desert Could not IQ
Bow myself down where thou hast kneltB2
To the earth until the ice would meltB2
Here and I feel as thou hast feltB2
What devil had the heart to scatheO
Flowers thou hadst rear'd to brush the dewD2
From thine own lily when thy graveE2
Was deep my mother in the clayM
Myself Is it thus Myself Had IQ
So little love for thee But whyQ
Prevail'd not thy pure prayers Why prayM
To one who heeds not who can saveE2
But will not Great in faith and strongF2
Against the grief of circumstanceG2
Wert thou and yet unheard What ifH2
Thou pleadest still and seest me driveI2
Thro' utter dark a full sail'd skiffH2
Unpiloted i' the echoing danceG2
Of reboant whirlwinds stooping lowG
Unto the death not sunk I knowG
At matins and at evensongF2
That thou if thou wert yet aliveI2
In deep and daily prayers wouldst striveI2
To reconcile me with thy GodB2
Albeit my hope is gray and coldB2
At heart thou wouldest murmur stillH
'Bring this lamb back into Thy foldB2
My Lord if so it be Thy will '-
Wouldst tell me I must brook the rodB2
And chastisement of human prideB2
That pride the sin of devils stoodB2
Betwixt me and the light of GodB2
That hitherto I had defiedB2
And had rejected God that graceJ2
Would drop from His o'er brimming loveK2
As manna on my wildernessV
If I would pray that God would moveL2
And strike the hard hard rock and thenceM2
Sweet in their utmost bitternessV
Would issue tears of penitenceV
Which would keep green hope's life AlasV
I think that pride hath now no placeV
Nor sojourn in me I am voidB2
Dark formless utterly destroyedB2
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Why not believe then Why not yetB2
Anchor thy frailty there where manN2
Hath moor'd and rested Ask the seaV
At midnight when the crisp slope wavesV
After a tempest rib and fretB2
The broad imbased beach why heV
Slumbers not like a mountain tarnN2
Wherefore his ridges are not curlsV
And ripples of an inland mereQ
Wherefore he moaneth thus nor canN2
Draw down into his vexed poolsV
All that blue heaven which hues and pavesV
The other I am too forlornN2
Too shaken my own weakness foolsV
My judgment and my spirit whirlsV
Moved from beneath with doubt and fearQ
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'Yet ' said I in my morn of youthO
The unsunn'd freshness of my strengthO
When I went forth in quest of truthO
'It is man's privilege to doubtB2
If so be that from doubt at lengthO
Truth may stand forth unmoved of changeO2
An image with profulgent browsV
And perfect limbs as from the stormP2
Of running fires and fluid rangeO2
Of lawless airs at last stood outB2
This excellence and solid formP2
Of constant beauty For the oxV
Feeds in the herb and sleeps or fillsV
The horned valleys all aboutB2
And hollows of the fringed hillsV
In summer heats with placid lowsV
Unfearing till his own blood flowsV
About his hoof And in the flocksV
The lamb rejoiceth in the yearQ
And raceth freely with his fereQ
And answers to his mother's callsV
From the flower'd furrow In a timeQ2
Of which he wots not run short painsV
Thro' his warm heart and then from whenceV
He knows not on his light there fallsV
A shadow and his native slopeR2
Where he was wont to leap and climbQ2
Floats from his sick and filmed eyesV
And something in the darkness drawsV
His forehead earthward and he diesV
Shall man live thus in joy and hopeR2
As a young lamb who cannot dreamS2
Living but that he shall live onN2
Shall we not look into the lawsV
Of life and death and things that seemS2
And things that be and analyzeV
Our double nature and compareQ
All creeds till we have found the oneN2
If one there be ' Ay me I fearQ
All may not doubt but everywhereQ
Some must clasp idols Yet my GodB2
Whom call I idol Let Thy doveK2
Shadow me over and my sinsV
Be unremember'd and Thy loveK2
Enlighten me O teach me yetB2
Somewhat before the heavy clodB2
Weighs on me and the busy fretB2
Of that sharp headed worm beginsV
In the gross blackness underneathO
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O weary life O weary deathO
O spirit and heart made desolateB2
O damned vacillating stateB2

Alfred Lord Tennyson



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