The Open Secret Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEDDEDFFGHIJKLMJM NOONPPQQRRSFTTUUFFFF FVWWVFFFV XYZAA2B2B2FA2F| The Heavens repeat no other Song | A |
| And plainly or in parable | B |
| The Angels trust in each man's to gue | C |
| The Treasure's safety to its size | D |
| In shameful Hell | E |
| The Lily in last corruption lies | D |
| Where known 'tis rotten lily wise | D |
| By the strange foulness of the smell | E |
| Earth that in this arcanum spies | D |
| Proof of high kinship unconceiv'd | F |
| By all desired and disbeliev'd | F |
| Shews fancies in each thing that is | G |
| Which nothing mean not meaning this | H |
| Yea does from her own law to hint it err | I |
| As 'twere a trust too huge for her | J |
| Maiden and Youth pipe wondrous clear | K |
| The tune they are the last to hear | L |
| 'Tis the strange gem in Pleasure's cup | M |
| Physician and Philosopher | J |
| In search of acorns plough it up | M |
| But count it nothing 'mong their gains | N |
| Nay call it pearl they'd answer Lo | O |
| Blest Land where pearls as large as pumpkins grow | O |
| And would not even rend you for your pains | N |
| To tell men truth yet keep them dark | P |
| And shooting still beside the mark | P |
| God as in jest gave to their wish | Q |
| The Sign of Jonah and the Fish | Q |
| 'Tis the name new on the white stone | R |
| To none but them that have it known | R |
| And even these can scarce believe but cry | S |
| When turn'd was Sion's captivity | F |
| Then were we yea and yet we seem | T |
| Like them that dream | T |
| In Spirit 'tis a punctual ray | U |
| Of peace that sheds more light than day | U |
| In Will and Mind | F |
| 'Tis the easy path so hard to find | F |
| In Heart a pain not to be told | F |
| Were words mere honey milk and gold | F |
| I' the Body 'tis the bag of the bee | F |
| In all the present thousandfold amends | V |
| Made to the sad astonish'd life | W |
| Of him that leaves house child and wife | W |
| And on God's 'hest almost despairing wends | V |
| As little guessing as the herd | F |
| What a strange Ph nix of a bird | F |
| Builds in this tree | F |
| But only intending all that He intends | V |
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| To this the Life of them that live | X |
| If God would not thus far give tongue | Y |
| Ah why did He his secret give | Z |
| To one that has the gift of song | A |
| But all He does He doubtless means | A2 |
| And if the Mystery that smites Prophets dumb | B2 |
| Here to the grace couch'd eyes of some | B2 |
| Shapes to its living face the clinging shroud | F |
| Perchance the Skies grow tired of screens | A2 |
| And 'tis His Advent in the Cloud | F |
Coventry Patmore
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