The Clearer Self Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABAC DEDE FGFG HIHI JHKH HLHL| Before 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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