The Transfiguration Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGHIJHKLCGMFNOG CPQQRSTUQGVQQWQXWQCY MZGA2OQQQB2 C2QQD2E2F2C2LC2C2YLC 2C2CL| So from the ground we felt that virtue branch | A |
| Through all our veins till we were whole our wrists | B |
| As fresh and pure as water from a well | C |
| Our hands made new to handle holy things | D |
| The source of all our seeing rinsed and cleansed | E |
| Till earth and light and water entering there | F |
| Gave back to us the clear unfallen world | G |
| We would have thrown our clothes away for lightness | H |
| But that even they though sour and travel stained | I |
| Seemed like our flesh made of immortal substance | J |
| And the soiled flax and wool lay light upon us | H |
| Like friendly wonders flower and flock entwined | K |
| As in a morning field Was it a vision | L |
| Or did we see that day the unseeable | C |
| One glory of the everlasting world | G |
| Perpetually at work though never seen | M |
| Since Eden locked the gate that s everywhere | F |
| And nowhere Was the change in us alone | N |
| And the enormous earth still left forlorn | O |
| An exile or a prisoner Yet the world | G |
| We saw that day made this unreal for all | C |
| Was in its place The painted animals | P |
| Assembled there in gentle congregations | Q |
| Or sought apart their leafy oratories | Q |
| Or walked in peace the wild and tame together | R |
| As if also for them the day had come | S |
| The shepherds hovels shone for underneath | T |
| The soot we saw the stone clean at the heart | U |
| As on the starting day The refuse heaps | Q |
| Were grained with that fine dust that made the world | G |
| For he had said To the pure all things are pure | V |
| And when we went into the town he with us | Q |
| The lurkers under doorways murderers | Q |
| With rags tied round their feet for silence came | W |
| Out of themselves to us and were with us | Q |
| And those who hide within the labyrinth | X |
| Of their own loneliness and greatness came | W |
| And those entangled in their own devices | Q |
| The silent and the garrulous liars all | C |
| Stepped out of their dungeons and were free | Y |
| Reality or vision this we have seen | M |
| If it had lasted but another moment | Z |
| It might have held for ever But the world | G |
| Rolled back into its place and we are here | A2 |
| And all that radiant kingdom lies forlorn | O |
| As if it had never stirred no human voice | Q |
| Is heard among its meadows but it speaks | Q |
| To itself alone alone it flowers and shines | Q |
| And blossoms for itself while time runs on | B2 |
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| But he will come again it s said though not | C2 |
| Unwanted and unsummoned for all things | Q |
| Beasts of the field and woods and rocks and seas | Q |
| And all mankind from end to end of the earth | D2 |
| Will call him with one voice In our own time | E2 |
| Some say or at a time when time is ripe | F2 |
| Then he will come Christ the uncrucified | C2 |
| Christ the discrucified his death undone | L |
| His agony unmade his cross dismantled | C2 |
| Glad to be so and the tormented wood | C2 |
| Will cure its hurt and grow into a tree | Y |
| In a green springing corner of young Eden | L |
| And Judas damned take his long journey backward | C2 |
| From darkness into light and be a child | C2 |
| Beside his mother s knee and the betrayal | C |
| Be quite undone and never more be done | L |
Edwin Muir
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