The Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABBCBC DEDEEFEF GHGHHIHI JKJL KMKM NONOOPOP QRQRRARA STSTTUTUVV| My mind is like a troubled sea | A |
| O'er which the winds forever sweep | B |
| Within its depths eternally | A |
| My being's pulses throb and leap | B |
| There germs of contemplation sleep | B |
| Like stars beyond the Milky Way | C |
| Like pearls within the gloomy deep | B |
| That never saw the light of day | C |
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| Oh wondrous mind how little known | D |
| Whence comes the thought that through my brain | E |
| Floats weirdlike as the pleasing tone | D |
| That quickens a belov d strain | E |
| It may have graced some sweet refrain | E |
| A thousand years ago or more | F |
| Some Norman Prince some valiant Dane | E |
| May have imbibed it with their lore | F |
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| It may have strengthened Plato's soul | G |
| Its clarion echoes ringing through | H |
| His brain the heaven reaching goal | G |
| Whence wisdom had its starry view | H |
| It may have cheered the gifted few | H |
| Whose minds were mints of royal song | I |
| Who toiled where Shakespeare soared and drew | H |
| Down blessings from the grateful throng | I |
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| And on for ages yet to come | J |
| Through minds by heavenly impulse fired | K |
| That thought may strike some scorner dumb | J |
| In all its regal guise attired | L |
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| Divinely blest though uninspired | K |
| Some soul may change its swift career | M |
| Bearing the great truth long desired | K |
| In triumph to the highest sphere | M |
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| Unbounded universe of Thought | N |
| Illimitable realms of mind | O |
| Regions of Fancy wonder fraught | N |
| Imagination unconfined | O |
| Temples of mystery behind | O |
| Whose veils the God appointed plan | P |
| In perfect wisdom is enshrined | O |
| Beyond the pigmy reach of man | P |
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| I cannot dare not seek to know | Q |
| What finite vision to the end | R |
| Through years of strictest search below | Q |
| Must ever fail to comprehend | R |
| God whose intents so far transcend | R |
| Our poor discernment let me see | A |
| Some portion of the truths that tend | R |
| By slow gradations up to Thee | A |
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| That in the less imperfect years | S |
| When human frailty shall have died | T |
| When the vexed riddle of the spheres | S |
| Interpreted and glorified | T |
| Shall be as nothing to the tide | T |
| Of light in which Thy hidden ways | U |
| Will be revealed I may abide | T |
| Thy meanest instrument of praise | U |
| And from the broad calm ocean of Thy truth | V |
| And wisdom drinking find eternal youth | V |
Charles Sangster
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