Dungeon Grates Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFFGGHHIIJJKK LLMMMMNNFFJJOMOPPJJQ Q| So piteously the lonely soul of man | A |
| Shudders before this universal plan | A |
| So grievous is the burden and the pain | B |
| So heavy weighs the long material chain | B |
| From cause to cause too merciless for hate | C |
| The nightmare march of unrelenting fate | C |
| I think that he must die thereof unless | D |
| Ever and again across the dreariness | E |
| There came a sudden glimpse of spirit faces | F |
| A fragrant breath to tell of flowery places | F |
| And wider oceans breaking on the shore | G |
| From which the hearts of men are always sore | G |
| It lies beyond endeavour neither prayer | H |
| Nor fasting nor much wisdom winneth there | H |
| Seeing how many prophets and wise men | I |
| Have sought for it and still returned again | I |
| With hope undone But only the strange power | J |
| Of unsought Beauty in some casual hour | J |
| Can build a bridge of light or sound or form | K |
| To lead you out of all this strife and storm | K |
| When of some beauty we are grown a part | L |
| Till from its very glory s midmost heart | L |
| Out leaps a sudden beam of larger light | M |
| Into our souls All things are seen aright | M |
| Amid the blinding pillar of its gold | M |
| Seven times more true than what for truth we hold | M |
| In vulgar hours The miracle is done | N |
| And for one little moment we are one | N |
| With the eternal stream of loveliness | F |
| That flows so calm aloft from all distress | F |
| Yet leaps and lives around us as a fire | J |
| Making us faint with overstrong desire | J |
| To sport and swim for ever in its deep | O |
| Only a moment | M |
| O but we shall keep | O |
| Our vision still One moment was enough | P |
| We know we are not made of mortal stuff | P |
| And we can bear all trials that come after | J |
| The hate of men and the fool s loud bestial laughter | J |
| And Nature s rule and cruelties unclean | Q |
| For we have seen the Glory we have seen | Q |
Clive Staples Lewis
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