On A Drop Of Dew Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCABCDEFCCFGHHHIJHH KFKFCCLHLHMMNONOPPQQSee how the orient dew | A |
Shed from the bosom of the morn | B |
Into the blowing roses | C |
Yet careless of its mansion new | A |
For the clear region where 'twas born | B |
Round in its self incloses | C |
And in its little globe's extent | D |
Frames as it can its native element | E |
How it the purple flow'r does slight | F |
Scarce touching where it lies | C |
But gazing back upon the skies | C |
Shines with a mournful light | F |
Like its own tear | G |
Because so long divided from the sphere | H |
Restless it rolls and unsecure | H |
Trembling lest it grow impure | H |
Till the warm sun pity its pain | I |
And to the skies exhale it back again | J |
So the soul that drop that ray | H |
Of the clear fountain of eternal day | H |
Could it within the human flow'r be seen | K |
Rememb'ring still its former height | F |
Shuns the sweet leaves and blossoms green | K |
And recollecting its own light | F |
Does in its pure and circling thoughts express | C |
The greater Heaven in an Heaven less | C |
In how coy a figure wound | L |
Every way it turns away | H |
So the world excluding round | L |
Yet receiving in the day | H |
Dark beneath but bright above | M |
Here disdaining there in love | M |
How loose and easy hence to go | N |
How girt and ready to ascend | O |
Moving but on a point below | N |
It all about does upwards bend | O |
Such did the manna's sacred dew distil | P |
White and intire though congealed and chill | P |
Congealed on earth but does dissolving run | Q |
Into the glories of th' Almighty Sun | Q |
Andrew Marvell
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