The Mystic Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBADED FAGHGIIJDJ KLMLNBOB FPAQAIIAAA ARARSTKT AKKAKIIAAAThere is a quest that calls me | A |
In nights when I am lone | B |
The need to ride where the ways divide | C |
The Known from the Unknown | B |
I mount what thought is near me | A |
And soon I reach the place | D |
The tenuous rim where the Seen grows dim | E |
And the Sightless hides its face | D |
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I have ridden the wind | F |
I have ridden the sea | A |
I have ridden the moon and stars | G |
I have set my feet in the stirrup seat | H |
Of a comet coursing Mars | G |
And everywhere | I |
Thro' the earth and air | I |
My thought speeds lightning shod | J |
It comes to a place where checking pace | D |
It cries Beyond lies God | J |
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It calls me out of the darkness | K |
It calls me out of sleep | L |
Ride ride for you must to the end of Dust | M |
It bids and on I sweep | L |
To the wide outposts of Being | N |
Where there is Gulf alone | B |
And thro' a Vast that was never passed | O |
I listen for Life's tone | B |
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I have ridden the wind | F |
I have ridden the night | P |
I have ridden the ghosts that flee | A |
From the vaults of death like a chilling breath | Q |
Over eternity | A |
And everywhere | I |
Is the world laid bare | I |
Ether and star and clod | A |
Until I wind to its brink and find | A |
But the cry Beyond lies God | A |
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It calls me and ever calls me | A |
And vainly I reply | R |
Fools only ride where the ways divide | A |
What Is from the Whence and Why | R |
I'm lifted into the saddle | S |
Of thoughts too strong to tame | T |
And down the deeps and over the steeps | K |
I find ever the same | T |
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I have ridden the wind | A |
I have ridden the stars | K |
I have ridden the force that flies | K |
With far intent thro' the firmament | A |
And each to each allies | K |
And everywhere | I |
That a thought may dare | I |
To gallop mine has trod | A |
Only to stand at last on the strand | A |
Where just beyond lies God | A |
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