Evensong Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCDED FGFG DHDH IDID JKJK LMLN DODO PDAD| There was a time we had the power | A |
| To build with Silent Thought | B |
| The perfect heaven reaching tower | A |
| As ancient seers have taught | B |
| And periods have been when all | C |
| Felt subtle agencies | D |
| Envelop life with gloomy pall | E |
| Or glad sublimities | D |
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| When each felt safe in God's own care | F |
| When eyes had farther sweep | G |
| When angels' visits were not rare | F |
| And Conscience dared not sleep | G |
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| 'When Silent Lands that no one heeds | D |
| But sentries of the van | H |
| Displayed their good or evil deeds | D |
| Before the eyes of man | H |
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| 'When all could read the Silent Script | I |
| And ope the Temple's bars | D |
| When every blade of grass was tipped | I |
| With signals from the stars | D |
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| But now for trust mayhap betrayed | J |
| Or pride too loosely checked | K |
| The Silent Oracles evade | J |
| Our questions too direct | K |
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| Precisian pundits bid us think | L |
| The gods have never been | M |
| The daylight pales the forms that link | L |
| The Silence with the Seen | N |
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| Usurping Sun the sky folk pens | D |
| Unwindowed in his blue | O |
| The trumpet blare of common sense | D |
| Our hearing deafens too | O |
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| But when we bid the band retire | P |
| And the Sun unhorse his cars | D |
| We hear an empyrean choir | A |
| And see the Silent Stars | D |
Bernard O'dowd
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