Peccavi, Domine Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDCD EFEFGHGH AIAJKLKL MNONDPDP QRQRSTSU VAVAWXWX YZYZA2AA2A| O Power to whom this earthly clime | A |
| Is but an atom in the whole | B |
| O Poet heart of Space and Time | A |
| O Maker and Immortal Soul | B |
| Within whose glowing rings are bound | C |
| Out of whose sleepless heart had birth | D |
| The cloudy blue the starry round | C |
| And this small miracle of earth | D |
| - | |
| Who liv'st in every living thing | E |
| And all things are thy script and chart | F |
| Who rid'st upon the eagle's wing | E |
| And yearnest in the human heart | F |
| O Riddle with a single clue | G |
| Love deathless protean secure | H |
| The ever old the ever new | G |
| O Energy serene and pure | H |
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| Thou who art also part of me | A |
| Whose glory I have sometime seen | I |
| O Vision of the Ought to be | A |
| O Memory of the Might have been | J |
| I have had glimpses of thy way | K |
| And moved with winds and walked with stars | L |
| But weary I have fallen astray | K |
| And wounded who shall count my scars | L |
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| O Master all my strength is gone | M |
| Unto the very earth I bow | N |
| I have no light to lead me on | O |
| With aching heart and burning brow | N |
| I lie as one that travaileth | D |
| In sorrow more than he can bear | P |
| I sit in darkness as of death | D |
| And scatter dust upon my hair | P |
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| The God within my soul hath slept | Q |
| And I have shamed the nobler rule | R |
| O Master I have whined and crept | Q |
| O Spirit I have played the fool | R |
| Like him of old upon whose head | S |
| His follies hung in dark arrears | T |
| I groan and travail in my bed | S |
| And water it with bitter tears | U |
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| I stand upon thy mountain heads | V |
| And gaze until mine eyes are dim | A |
| The golden morning glows and spreads | V |
| The hoary vapours break and swim | A |
| I see thy blossoming fields divine | W |
| Thy shining clouds thy blessed trees | X |
| And then that broken soul of mine | W |
| How much less beautiful than these | X |
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| O Spirit passionless but kind | Y |
| Is there in all the world I cry | Z |
| Another one so base and blind | Y |
| Another one so weak as I | Z |
| O Power unchangeable but just | A2 |
| Impute this one good thing to me | A |
| I sink my spirit to the dust | A2 |
| In utter dumb humility | A |
Archibald Lampman
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