A Question Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BCCDBEFBGGHIIH A HJJHHKKHHHHLMH| I | A |
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| SOUL spirit genius which thou art that whence | B |
| I know not rose upon this mortal frame | C |
| Like the sun o'er the mountains all aflame | C |
| Seen large through mists of childish innocence | D |
| And year by year with me uptravelling thence | B |
| As hour by hour the day star madest aspire | E |
| My nature interpenetrate with fire | F |
| It felt but understood not strong intense | B |
| Wisdom with folly mixed and gold with clay | G |
| Soul thou hast journeyed with me all this way | G |
| Oft hidden and o'erclouded oft arrayed | H |
| In scorching splendors that my earth life burned | I |
| Yet ever unto thee my true life turned | I |
| For dim or clear 't was thou my daylight made | H |
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| II | A |
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| SOUL dwelling oft in God's infinitude | H |
| And sometimes seeming no more part of me | J |
| This me worms' heritage than that sun can be | J |
| Part of the earth he has with warmth imbued | H |
| Whence camest thou whither goest thou I subdued | H |
| With awe of mine own being thus sit still | K |
| Dumb on the summit of this lonely hill | K |
| Whose dry November grasses dew bestrewed | H |
| Mirror a million suns That sun so bright | H |
| Passes as thou must pass Soul into night | H |
| Art thou afraid who solitary hast trod | H |
| A path I know not from a source to a bourne | L |
| Both which I know not fear'st thou to return | M |
| Alone even as thou camest alone to God | H |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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