Uranus1 Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABBCDEFFGGHIJEKLMNOP PMQRSTUVWWWMM| When on the primal peaceful blank profound | A |
| Which in its still unknowing silence holds | B |
| All knowledge ever by withholding holds | B |
| When on that void like footfalls in far rooms | C |
| In faint pulsations from the whitening East | D |
| Articulate voices first were felt to stir | E |
| And the great child in dreaming grown to man | F |
| Losing his dream to piece it up began | F |
| Then Plato in me said | G |
| ''Tis but the figured ceiling overhead | G |
| With cunning diagrams bestarred that shine | H |
| In all the three dimensions are endowed | I |
| With motion too by skill mechanical | J |
| That thou in height and depth and breadth and power | E |
| Schooled unto pure Mathesis might proceed | K |
| To higher entities whereof in us | L |
| Copies are seen existent they themselves | M |
| In the sole kingdom of the Mind and God | N |
| Mind not the stars mind thou thy Mind and God ' | O |
| By that supremer Word | P |
| O'ermastered deafly heard | P |
| Were hauntings dim of old astrologies | M |
| Chaldean mumblings vast with gossip light | Q |
| From modern ologistic fancyings mixed | R |
| Of suns and stars by hypothetic men | S |
| Of other frame than ours inhabited | T |
| Of lunar seas and lunar craters huge | U |
| And was there atmosphere or was there not | V |
| And without oxygen could life subsist | W |
| And was the world originally mist | W |
| Talk they as talk they list | W |
| I in that ampler voice | M |
| Unheeding did rejoice | M |
Arthur Hugh Clough
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