Isaiah Beethoven Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGHIJBHKGBLMNB BODBGPQR| They told me I had three months to live | A |
| So I crept to Bernadotte | B |
| And sat by the mill for hours and hours | C |
| Where the gathered waters deeply moving | D |
| Seemed not to move | E |
| O world that's you | F |
| You are but a widened place in the river | G |
| Where Life looks down and we rejoice for her | G |
| Mirrored in us and so we dream | H |
| And turn away but when again | I |
| We look for the face behold the low lands | J |
| And blasted cotton wood trees where we empty | B |
| Into the larger stream | H |
| But here by the mill the castled clouds | K |
| Mocked themselves in the dizzy water | G |
| And over its agate floor at night | B |
| The flame of the moon ran under my eyes | L |
| Amid a forest stillness broken | M |
| By a flute in a hut on the hill | N |
| At last when I came to lie in bed | B |
| Weak and in pain with the dreams about me | B |
| The soul of the river had entered my soul | O |
| And the gathered power of my soul was moving | D |
| So swiftly it seemed to be at rest | B |
| Under cities of cloud and under | G |
| Spheres of silver and changing worlds | P |
| Until I saw a flash of trumpets | Q |
| Above the battlements over Time | R |
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