Immutable Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJKLMCNOPQRS TUVWQXVVVYZYVA2SVOYV YB2 AC2D2E2VVSQSVYF2| AUTUMN to winter winter into spring | A |
| Spring into summer summer into fall | B |
| So rolls the changing year and so we change | C |
| Motion so swift we know not that we move | D |
| Till at the gate of some memorial hour | E |
| We pause look in its sepulchre to find | F |
| The cast off shape that years since we called 'I' | G |
| And start amazed Yet on We may not stay | H |
| To weep or laugh All which is past is past | I |
| Even while we gaze the simulated form | J |
| Drops into dust like many centuried corpse | K |
| At opening of a tomb | L |
| Alack this world | M |
| Is full of change change change nothing but change | C |
| Is there not one straw in life's whirling flood | N |
| To hold by as the torrent sweeps us down | O |
| Us scattered leaves eddied and broken torn | P |
| Roughly asunder or in smooth mid stream | Q |
| Divided each from other without pain | R |
| Collected in what looks like union | S |
| Yet is but stagnant chance stopping to rot | T |
| By the same pebble till the tide shall turn | U |
| Then on to find no shelter and no rest | V |
| Forever rootless and forever lone | W |
| O God we are but leaves upon Thy stream | Q |
| Clouds on Thy sky We do but move across | X |
| The silent breast of Thy infinitude | V |
| Which bears us all We pour out day by day | V |
| Our long brief moan of mutability | V |
| To Thine immutable and cease | Y |
| Yet still | Z |
| Our change yearns after Thine unchangedness | Y |
| Our mortal craves Thine immortality | V |
| Our manifold and multiform and weak | A2 |
| Imperfectness requires the perfect ONE | S |
| For Thou art ONE and we are all of Thee | V |
| Dropped from Thy bosom as Thy sky drops down | O |
| Its morning dews which glitter for a space | Y |
| Uncertain whence they fell or whither tend | V |
| Till the great Sun arising on his fields | Y |
| Upcalls them all and they rejoicing go | B2 |
| - | |
| So with like joy O Light Eterne we spring | A |
| Thee ward and leave the pleasant fields of earth | C2 |
| Forgetting equally its blossomed green | D2 |
| And its dry dusty paths which drank us up | E2 |
| Remorseless we poor humble drops of dew | V |
| That only wish to freshen a flower's breast | V |
| And be exhaled to heaven | S |
| O Thou supreme | Q |
| All satisfying and immutable One | S |
| It is enough to be absorbed in Thee | V |
| And vanish though 't were only to a voice | Y |
| That through all ages with perpetual joy | F2 |
| Goes evermore loud crying 'God God God ' | - |
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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