Self Communion Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDEF AAGCEGHIHIJGKGLLMNN OPOPGAGAQQGEE GEGRSBSBLLGTTG GUGVGGGGWWXVVY TLTLZPZPA2A2B2LLB2 C2D2C2A2E2A2 GF2GF2GGB2CEB2G2H2G2 H2CA2EA2E2I2E2I2 GNGNJ2J2K2F2F2K2L2GM 2 A2A2N2NO2 A2GA2GP2GP2 A2A2Q2LLQ2GP2GP2QL2Q M2BBGGG AGAGLR2LR2B2S2GGF2B2 S2 T2GT2GL2U2M2U2LGLGGG GGGGGV2GV2R2GR2GW2F2 W2B2 GGGGR2X2R2Q2Y2Y2GQ2'The mist is resting on the hill | A |
The smoke is hanging in the air | B |
The very clouds are standing still | A |
A breathless calm broods everywhere | B |
Thou pilgrim through this vale of tears | C |
Thou too a little moment cease | D |
Thy anxious toil and fluttering fears | E |
And rest thee for a while in peace ' | F |
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'I would but Time keeps working still | A |
And moving on for good or ill | A |
He will not rest or stay | G |
In pain or ease in smiles or tears | C |
He still keeps adding to my years | E |
And stealing life away | G |
His footsteps in the ceaseless sound | H |
Of yonder clock I seem to hear | I |
That through this stillness so profound | H |
Distinctly strikes the vacant ear | I |
For ever striding on and on | J |
He pauses not by night or day | G |
And all my life will soon be gone | K |
As these past years have slipped away | G |
He took my childhood long ago | L |
And then my early youth and lo | L |
He steals away my prime | M |
I cannot see how fast it goes | N |
But well my inward spirit knows | N |
The wasting power of time ' | - |
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'Time steals thy moments drinks thy breath | O |
Changes and wastes thy mortal frame | P |
But though he gives the clay to death | O |
He cannot touch the inward flame | P |
Nay though he steals thy years away | G |
Their memory is left thee still | A |
And every month and every day | G |
Leaves some effect of good or ill | A |
The wise will find in Memory's store | Q |
A help for that which lies before | Q |
To guide their course aright | G |
Then hush thy plaints and calm thy fears | E |
Look back on these departed years | E |
And say what meets thy sight ' | - |
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'I see far back a helpless child | G |
Feeble and full of causeless fears | E |
Simple and easily beguiled | G |
To credit all it hears | R |
More timid than the wild wood dove | S |
Yet trusting to another's care | B |
And finding in protecting love | S |
Its only refuge from despair | B |
Its only balm for every woe | L |
The only bliss its soul can know | L |
Still hiding in its breast | G |
A tender heart too prone to weep | T |
A love so earnest strong and deep | T |
It could not be expressed | G |
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Poor helpless thing what can it do | G |
Life's stormy cares and toils among | U |
How tread this weary desert through | G |
That awes the brave and tires the strong | V |
Where shall it centre so much trust | G |
Where truth maintains so little sway | G |
Where seeming fruit is bitter dust | G |
And kisses oft to death betray | G |
How oft must sin and falsehood grieve | W |
A heart so ready to believe | W |
And willing to admire | X |
With strength so feeble fears so strong | V |
Amid this selfish bustling throng | V |
How will it faint and tire | Y |
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That tender love so warm and deep | T |
How can it flourish here below | L |
What bitter floods of tears must steep | T |
The stony soil where it would grow | L |
O earth a rocky breast is thine | Z |
A hard soil and a cruel clime | P |
Where tender plants must droop and pine | Z |
Or alter with transforming time | P |
That soul that clings to sympathy | A2 |
As ivy clasps the forest tree | A2 |
How can it stand alone | B2 |
That heart so prone to overflow | L |
E'en at the thought of others' woe | L |
How will it bear its own | B2 |
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How if a sparrow's death can wring | C2 |
Such bitter tear floods from the eye | D2 |
Will it behold the suffering | C2 |
Of struggling lost humanity | A2 |
The torturing pain the pining grief | E2 |
The sin degraded misery | A2 |
The anguish that defies relief ' | - |
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'Look back again What dost thou see ' | - |
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'I see one kneeling on the sod | G |
With infant hands upraised to Heaven | F2 |
A young heart feeling after God | G |
Oft baffled never backward driven | F2 |
Mistaken oft and oft astray | G |
It strives to find the narrow way | G |
But gropes and toils alone | B2 |
That inner life of strife and tears | C |
Of kindling hopes and lowering fears | E |
To none but God is known | B2 |
'Tis better thus for man would scorn | G2 |
Those childish prayers those artless cries | H2 |
That darkling spirit tossed and torn | G2 |
But God will not despise | H2 |
We may regret such waste of tears | C |
Such darkly toiling misery | A2 |
Such 'wildering doubts and harrowing fears | E |
Where joy and thankfulness should be | A2 |
But wait and Heaven will send relief | E2 |
Let patience have her perfect work | I2 |
Lo strength and wisdom spring from grief | E2 |
And joys behind afflictions lurk | I2 |
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It asked for light and it is heard | G |
God grants that struggling soul repose | N |
And guided by His holy word | G |
It wiser than its teachers grows | N |
It gains the upward path at length | J2 |
And passes on from strength to strength | J2 |
Leaning on Heaven the while | K2 |
Night's shades departing one by one | F2 |
It sees at last the rising sun | F2 |
And feels his cheering smile | K2 |
In all its darkness and distress | L2 |
For light it sought to God it cried | G |
And through the pathless wilderness | M2 |
He was its comfort and its guide ' | - |
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'So was it and so will it be | A2 |
Thy God will guide and strengthen thee | A2 |
His goodness cannot fail | N2 |
The sun that on thy morning rose | N |
Will light thee to the evening's close | O2 |
Whatever storms assail ' | - |
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'God alters not but Time on me | A2 |
A wide and wondrous change has wrought | G |
And in these parted years I see | A2 |
Cause for grave care and saddening thought | G |
I see that time and toil and truth | P2 |
An inward hardness can impart | G |
Can freeze the generous blood of youth | P2 |
And steel full fast the tender heart ' | - |
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'Bless God for that divine decree | A2 |
That hardness comes with misery | A2 |
And suffering deadens pain | Q2 |
That at the frequent sight of woe | L |
E'en Pity's tears forget to flow | L |
If reason still remain | Q2 |
Reason with conscience by her side | G |
But gathers strength from toil and truth | P2 |
And she will prove a surer guide | G |
Than those sweet instincts of our youth | P2 |
Thou that hast known such anguish sore | Q |
In weeping where thou couldst not bless | L2 |
Canst thou that softness so deplore | Q |
That suffering shrinking tenderness | M2 |
Thou that hast felt what cankering care | B |
A loving heart is doomed to bear | B |
Say how canst thou regret | G |
That fires unfed must fall away | G |
Long droughts can dry the softest clay | G |
And cold will cold beget ' | - |
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'Nay but 'tis hard to feel that chill | A |
Come creeping o'er the shuddering heart | G |
Love may be full of pain but still | A |
'Tis sad to see it so depart | G |
To watch that fire whose genial glow | L |
Was formed to comfort and to cheer | R2 |
For want of fuel fading so | L |
Sinking to embers dull and drear | R2 |
To see the soft soil turned to stone | B2 |
For lack of kindly showers | S2 |
To see those yearnings of the breast | G |
Pining to bless and to be blessed | G |
Drop withered frozen one by one | F2 |
Till centred in itself alone | B2 |
It wastes its blighted powers | S2 |
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Oh I have known a wondrous joy | T2 |
In early friendship's pure delight | G |
A genial bliss that could not cloy | T2 |
My sun by day my moon by night | G |
Absence indeed was sore distress | L2 |
And thought of death was anguish keen | U2 |
And there was cruel bitterness | M2 |
When jarring discords rose between | U2 |
And sometimes it was grief to know | L |
My fondness was but half returned | G |
But this was nothing to the woe | L |
With which another truth was learned | G |
That I must check or nurse apart | G |
Full many an impulse of the heart | G |
And many a darling thought | G |
What my soul worshipped sought and prized | G |
Were slighted questioned or despised | G |
This pained me more than aught | G |
And as my love the warmer glowed | G |
The deeper would that anguish sink | V2 |
That this dark stream between us flowed | G |
Though both stood bending o'er its brink | V2 |
Until as last I learned to bear | R2 |
A colder heart within my breast | G |
To share such thoughts as I could share | R2 |
And calmly keep the rest | G |
I saw that they were sundered now | W2 |
The trees that at the root were one | F2 |
They yet might mingle leaf and bough | W2 |
But still the stems must stand alone | B2 |
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O love is sweet of every kind | G |
'Tis sweet the helpless to befriend | G |
To watch the young unfolding mind | G |
To guide to shelter and defend | G |
To lavish tender toil and care | R2 |
And ask for nothing back again | X2 |
But that our smiles a blessing bear | R2 |
And all our toil be not in vain | Q2 |
And sweeter far than words can tell | Y2 |
Their love whose ardent bosoms swell | Y2 |
With thoughts they need not hide | G |
Where fortun | Q2 |
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