Blessed Are They That Have Not Seen! Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGG HHIIJKLLMM NNBBOPQQ| O happy they whose hearts receive | A |
| The implanted word with faith believe | A |
| Because their fathers did before | B |
| Because they learnt and ask no more | B |
| High triumphs of convictions wrought | C |
| And won by individual thought | C |
| The joy delusive oft but keen | D |
| Of having with our own eyes seen | D |
| What if they have not felt nor known | E |
| An amplitude instead they own | E |
| By no self binding ordinance prest | F |
| To toil in labour they detest | F |
| By no deceiving reasoning tied | G |
| Or this or that way to decide | G |
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| O happy they above their head | H |
| The glory of the unseen is spread | H |
| Their happy heart is free to range | I |
| Thro' largest tracts of pleasant change | I |
| Their intellects encradled lie | J |
| In boundless possibility | K |
| For impulses of varying kinds | L |
| The Ancient Home a lodging finds | L |
| Each appetite our nature breeds | M |
| It meets with viands for its needs | M |
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| O happy they nor need they fear | N |
| The wordy strife that rages near | N |
| All reason wastes by day and more | B |
| Will instinct in a night restore | B |
| O happy so their state but give | O |
| A clue by which a man can live | P |
| O blest unless 'tis proved by fact | Q |
| A dream impossible to act | Q |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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