The Three Witnesses Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDDEEFFGHIIFFFF JJFFKL| Musing I met in no strange land | A |
| What meet thou must to understand | A |
| An Angel There was none but he | B |
| Yet 'twas a glorious company | B |
| God Youth and Goddess one twain trine | C |
| In altering wedlock flamed benign | C |
| The Youth i' the midst did shadowy seem | D |
| Till merged in either blest extreme | D |
| But could by choosing each way turn | E |
| And with God for the Goddess burn | E |
| Or vanish in the Goddess quite | F |
| To be with her the God's delight | F |
| And whether he chose Hers or His | G |
| He glow'd at once with either's bliss | H |
| The head was Godhead without guile | I |
| A solar force an infant's smile | I |
| Breasted the Wonder was and loin'd | F |
| With Man and Woman's beauties join'd | F |
| And thence O moonlike and most sweet | F |
| The Goddess brighten'd to the feet | F |
| Which when they felt the one the other | J |
| Felt each like Cupid and his Mother | J |
| Unwearying since I caught that sight | F |
| Him have I praised by whose word's might | F |
| The Heavens and the Earth did breathe | K |
| And the gay Waters underneath | L |
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