The Largest Life Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCBBDDBEFEFGGAHIHI JKJLMNMNOOAPQPQRSRST UTUVV| I | A |
| I lie upon my bed and hear and see | B |
| The moon is rising through the glistening trees | C |
| And momently a great and sombre breeze | C |
| With a vast voice returning fitfully | B |
| Comes like a deep toned grief and stirs in me | B |
| Somehow by some inexplicable art | D |
| A sense of my soul's strangeness and its part | D |
| In the dark march of human destiny | B |
| What am I then and what are they that pass | E |
| Yonder and love and laugh and mourn and weep | F |
| What shall they know of me or I alas | E |
| Of them Little At times as if from sleep | F |
| We waken to this yearning passionate mood | G |
| And tremble at our spiritual solitude | G |
| II | A |
| Nay never once to feel we are alone | H |
| While the great human heart around us lies | I |
| To make the smile on other lips our own | H |
| To live upon the light in others' eyes | I |
| To breathe without a doubt the limped air | J |
| Of that most perfect love that knows no pain | K |
| To say I love you only and not care | J |
| Whether the love come back to us again | L |
| Divinest self forgetfulness at first | M |
| A task and then a tonic then a need | N |
| To greet with open hands the best and worst | M |
| And only for another's wound to bleed | N |
| This is to see the beauty that God meant | O |
| Wrapped round with life ineffably content | O |
| III | A |
| There is a beauty at the goal of life | P |
| A beauty growing since the world began | Q |
| Through every age and race through lapse and strife | P |
| Till the great human soul complete her span | Q |
| Beneath the waves of storm that lash and burn | R |
| The currents of blind passion that appall | S |
| To listen and keep watch till we discern | R |
| The tide of sovereign truth that guides it all | S |
| So to address our spirits to the height | T |
| And so attune them to the valiant whole | U |
| That the great light be clearer for our light | T |
| And the great soul the stronger for our soul | U |
| To have done this is to have lived though fame | V |
| Remember us with no familiar name | V |
Archibald Lampman
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