Shadow And Light Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDED AFGFHF FIGI IJKJ LLMN OPHP QIRI| Cease empty Faith the Spectrum saith | A |
| I was and lo have been | B |
| I God am nought a shade of thought | C |
| Which but by darkness seen | D |
| Upon the unknown yourselves have thrown | E |
| Placed it and light between | D |
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| At morning's birth on darkened earth | A |
| And as the evening sinks | F |
| Awfully vast abroad is cast | G |
| The lengthened form that shrinks | F |
| And shuns the sight in midday light | H |
| And underneath you slinks | F |
| - | |
| From barren strands of wintry lands | F |
| Across the seas of time | I |
| Borne onward fast ye touch at last | G |
| An equatorial clime | I |
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| In equatorial noon sublime | I |
| At zenith stands the sun | J |
| And lo around far near are found | K |
| Yourselves and Shadow none | J |
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| A moment yea but when the day | L |
| At length was perfect day | L |
| A moment so and light we know | M |
| With dark exchanges aye | N |
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| Nor morn nor eve shall shadow leave | O |
| Your sunny paths secure | P |
| And in your sight that orb of light | H |
| Shall humbler orbs obscure | P |
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| And yet withal 'tis shadow all | Q |
| Whate'er your fancies dream | I |
| And I misdeemed that was that seemed | R |
| Am not whate'er I seem | I |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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