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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Renascence Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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All I could see from where I stood	A
Was three long mountains and a wood	A
I turned and looked another way	B
And saw three islands in a bay	B
So with my eyes I traced the line	C
Of the horizon thin and fine	C
Straight around till I was come	D
Back to where I'd started from	D
And all I saw from where I stood	A
Was three long mountains and a wood	A
Over these things I could not see	E
These were the things that bounded me	E
And I could touch them with my hand	F
Almost I thought from where I stand	F
And all at once things seemed so small	G
My breath came short and scarce at all	G
But sure the sky is big I said	H
Miles and miles above my head	H
So here upon my back I'll lie	I
And look my fill into the sky	I
And so I looked and after all	G
The sky was not so very tall	G
The sky I said must somewhere stop	J
And sure enough I see the top	J
The sky I thought is not so grand	F
I 'most could touch it with my hand	F
And reaching up my hand to try	I
I screamed to feel it touch the sky	I
I screamed and lo Infinity	E
Came down and settled over me	E
Forced back my scream into my chest	K
Bent back my arm upon my breast	K
And pressing of the Undefined	L
The definition on my mind	L
Held up before my eyes a glass	M
Through which my shrinking sight did pass	M
Until it seemed I must behold	N
Immensity made manifold	N
Whispered to me a word whose sound	O
Deafened the air for worlds around	O
And brought unmuffled to my ears	P
The gossiping of friendly spheres	P
The creaking of the tented sky	I
The ticking of Eternity	E
I saw and heard and knew at last	Q
The How and Why of all things past	Q
And present and forevermore	I
The Universe cleft to the core	I
Lay open to my probing sense	R
That sick'ning I would fain pluck thence	R
But could not nay But needs must suck	S
At the great wound and could not pluck	S
My lips away till I had drawn	T
All venom out Ah fearful pawn	T
For my omniscience paid I toll	U
In infinite remorse of soul	U
All sin was of my sinning all	G
Atoning mine and mine the gall	G
Of all regret Mine was the weight	V
Of every brooded wrong the hate	V
That stood behind each envious thrust	W
Mine every greed mine every lust	W
And all the while for every grief	X
Each suffering I craved relief	X
With individual desire	I
Craved all in vain And felt fierce fire	I
About a thousand people crawl	G
Perished with each then mourned for all	G
A man was starving in Capri	I
He moved his eyes and looked at me	I
I felt his gaze I heard his moan	Y
And knew his hunger as my own	Y
I saw at sea a great fog bank	Z
Between two ships that struck and sank	Z
A thousand screams the heavens smote	W
And every scream tore through my throat	W
No hurt I did not feel no death	A2
That was not mine mine each last breath	A2
That crying met an answering cry	I
From the compassion that was I	I
All suffering mine and mine its rod	W
Mine pity like the pity of God	W
Ah awful weight Infinity	W
Pressed down upon the finite Me	W
My anguished spirit like a bird	W
Beating against my lips I heard	W
Yet lay the weight so close about	W
There was no room for it without	W
And so beneath the weight lay I	I
And suffered death but could not die	I
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Long had I lain thus craving death	A2
When quietly the earth beneath	B2
Gave way and inch by inch so great	W
At last had grown the crushing weight	W
Into the earth I sank till I	I
Full six feet under ground did lie	I
And sank no more there is no weight	W
Can follow here however great	W
From off my breast I felt it roll	U
And as it went my tortured soul	U
Burst forth and fled in such a gust	W
That all about me swirled the dust	W
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Deep in the earth I rested now	C2
Cool is its hand upon the brow	C2
And soft its breast beneath the head	W
Of one who is so gladly dead	W
And all at once and over all	G
The pitying rain began to fall	G
I lay and heard each pattering hoof	D2
Upon my lowly thatched roof	D2
And seemed to love the sound far more	I
Than ever I had done before	I
For rain it hath a friendly sound	W
To one who's six feet underground	W
And scarce the friendly voice or face	E2
A grave is such a quiet place	E2
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The rain I said is kind to come	D
And speak to me in my new home	F2
I would I were alive again	G2
To kiss the fingers of the rain	H2
To drink into my eyes the shine	C
Of every slanting silver line	C
To catch the freshened fragrant breeze	I2
From drenched and dripping apple trees	I2
For soon the shower will be done	J2
And then the broad face of the sun	J2
Will laugh above the rain soaked earth	K2
Until the world with answering mirth	K2
Shakes joyously and each round drop	J
Rolls twinkling from its grass blade top	J
How can I bear it buried here	I
While overhead the sky grows clear	I
And blue again after the storm	L2
O multi colored multiform	L2
Beloved beauty over me	L2
That I shall never never see	L2
Again Spring silver autumn gold	W
That I shall never more behold	W
Sleeping your myriad magics through	I
Close sepulchred away from you	I
O God I cried give me new birth	K2
And put me back upon the earth	K2
Upset each cloud's gigantic gourd	W
And let the heavy rain down poured	W
In one big torrent set me free	L2
Washing my grave away from me	L2
	-
I ceased and through the breathless hush	M2
That answered me the far off rush	M2
Of herald wings came whispering	N2
Like music down the vibrant string	N2
Of my ascending prayer and crash	O2
Before the wild wind's whistling lash	O2
The startled storm clouds reared on high	I
And plunged in terror down the sky	I
And the big rain in one black wave	P2
Fell from the sky and struck my grave	P2
I know not how such things can be	L2
I only know there came to me	L2
A fragrance such as never clings	Q2
To aught save happy living things	Q2
A sound as of some joyous elf	R2
Singing sweet songs to please himself	R2
And through and over everything	N2
A sense of glad awakening	N2
The grass a tiptoe at my ear	I
Whispering to me I could hear	I
I felt the rain's cool finger tips	S2
Brushed tenderly across my lips	S2
Laid gently on my sealed sight	W
And all at once the heavy night	W
Fell from my eyes and I could see	L2
A drenched and dripping apple tree	L2
A last long line of silver rain	H2
A sky grown clear and blue again	G2
And as I looked a quickening gust	W
Of wind blew up to me and thrust	W
Into my face a miracle	T2
Of orchard breath and with the smell	U2
I know not how such things can be	L2
I breathed my soul back into me	L2
Ah Up then from the ground sprang I	I
And hailed the earth with such a cry	I
As is not heard save from a man	V2
Who has been dead and lives again	G2
About the trees my arms I wound	W
Like one gone mad I hugged the ground	W
I raised my quivering arms on high	I
I laughed and laughed into the sky	I
Till at my throat a strangling sob	W2
Caught fiercely and a great heart throb	W2
Sent instant tears into my eyes	X2
O God I cried no dark disguise	X2
Can e'er hereafter hide from me	L2
Thy radiant identity	L2
Thou canst not move across the grass	M
But my quick eyes will see Thee pass	M
Nor speak however silently	L2
But my hushed voice will answer Thee	L2
I know the path that tells Thy way	B
Through the cool eve of every day	B
God I can push the grass apart	W
And lay my finger on Thy heart	W
	-
The world stands out on either side	W
No wider than the heart is wide	W
Above the world is stretched the sky	I
No higher than the soul is high	I
The heart can push the sea and land	W
Farther away on either hand	W
The soul can split the sky in two	I
And let the face of God shine through	I
But East and West will pinch the heart	W
That can not keep them pushed apart	W
And he whose soul is flat the sky	I
Will cave in on him by and by	I