The Clearer Self Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JHKH HLHLBefore me grew the human soul | A |
And after I am dead and gone | B |
Through grades of effort and control | A |
The marvellous work shall still go on | C |
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Each mortal in his little span | D |
Hath only lived if he have shown | E |
What greatness there can be in man | D |
Above the measured and the known | E |
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How through the ancient layers of night | F |
In gradual victory secure | G |
Grows ever with increasing light | F |
The Energy serene and pure | G |
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The Soul that from a monstrous past | H |
From age to age from hour to hour | I |
Feels upward to some height at last | H |
Of unimagined grace and power | I |
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Though yet the sacred fire be dull | J |
In folds of thwarting matter furled | H |
Ere death be nigh while life is full | K |
O Master Spirit of the world | H |
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Grant me to know to seek to find | H |
In some small measure though it be | L |
Emerging from the waste and blind | H |
The clearer self the grander me | L |
Archibald Lampman
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