Through A Glass Darkly Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABC DDBC EEBC FFBC DDBC GGHH IIJJ AABC| What we when face to face we see | A |
| The Father of our souls shall be | A |
| John tells us doth not yet appear | B |
| Ah did he tell what we are here | C |
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| A mind for thoughts to pass into | D |
| A heart for loves to travel through | D |
| Five senses to detect things near | B |
| Is this the whole that we are here | C |
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| Rules baffle instincts instinct rules | E |
| Wise men are bad and good are fools | E |
| Facts evil wishes vain appear | B |
| We cannot go why are we here | C |
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| O may we for assurance's sake | F |
| Some arbitrary judgement take | F |
| And wilfully pronounce it clear | B |
| For this or that 'tis we are here | C |
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| Or is it right and will it do | D |
| To pace the sad confusion through | D |
| And say It doth not yet appear | B |
| What we shall be what we are here | C |
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| Ah yet when all is thought and said | G |
| The heart still overrules the head | G |
| Still what we hope we must believe | H |
| And what is given us receive | H |
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| Must still believe for still we hope | I |
| That in a world of larger scope | I |
| What here is faithfully begun | J |
| Will be completed not undone | J |
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| My child we still must think when we | A |
| That ampler life together see | A |
| Some true result will yet appear | B |
| Of what we are together here | C |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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