De Profundis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCD A BECCD A BDCCD BFGHD EEC D BBIID EEJKD BBLLD L MF D L FFLLD BBCCB BBCCB BBCCB BBCCB BBNNB BB B BBOOB BB B BBPPB BB B BBCCB BBHGB BBCCB BBOOB

IA
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The face which duly as the sunB
Rose up for me with life begunB
To mark all bright hours of the dayC
With hourly love is dimmed awayC
And yet my days go on go onD
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IIA
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The tongue which like a stream could runB
Smooth music from the roughest stoneE
And every morning with ' Good day'C
Make each day good is hushed awayC
And yet my days go on go onD
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IIIA
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The heart which like a staff was oneB
For mine to lean and rest uponD
The strongest on the longest dayC
With steadfast love is caught awayC
And yet my days go on go onD
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IV-
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And cold before my summer's doneB
And deaf in Nature's general tuneF
And fallen too low for special fearG
And here with hope no longer hereH
While the tears drop my days go onD
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V-
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The world goes whispering to its ownE
This anguish pierces to the boneE
And tender friends go sighing roundC
What love can ever cure this wound '-
My days go on my days go onD
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VI-
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The past rolls forward on the sunB
And makes all night O dreams begunB
Not to be ended Ended blissI
And life that will not end in thisI
My days go on my days go onD
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VII-
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Breath freezes on my lips to moanE
As one alone once not aloneE
I sit and knock at Nature's doorJ
Heart bare heart hungry very poorK
Whose desolated days go onD
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VIII-
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I knock and cry Undone undoneB
Is there no help no comfort noneB
No gleaning in the wide wheat plainsL
Where others drive their loaded wainsL
My vacant days go on go onD
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IXL
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This Nature though the snows be downM
Thinks kindly of the bird of JuneF
The little red hip on the tree-
Is ripe for such What is for me-
Whose days so winterly go onD
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XL
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No bird am I to sing in JuneF
And dare not ask an equal boonF
Good nests and berries red are Nature'sL
To give away to better creaturesL
And yet my days go on go onD
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XI-
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I ask less kindness to be doneB
Only to loose these pilgrim shoonB
Too early worn and grimed with sweetC
Cool deadly touch to these tired feetC
Till days go out which now go onB
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XII-
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Only to lift the turf unmownB
From off the earth where it has grownB
Some cubit space and say BeholdC
Creep in poor Heart beneath that foldC
Forgetting how the days go onB
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XIII-
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What harm would that do Green anonB
The sward would quicken overshoneB
By skies as blue and crickets mightC
Have leave to chirp there day and nightC
While my new rest went on went onB
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XIV-
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From gracious Nature have I wonB
Such liberal bounty may I runB
So lizard like within her sideC
And there be safe who now am triedC
By days that painfully go onB
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XV-
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A Voice reproves me thereuponB
More sweet than Nature's when the droneB
Of bees is sweetest and more deepN
Than when the rivers overleapN
The shuddering pines and thunder onB
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XVI-
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God's Voice not Nature's Night and noonB
He sits upon the great white throneB
And listens for the creatures' praise-
What babble we of days and days-
The Day spring He whose days go onB
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XVII-
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He reigns above He reigns aloneB
Systems burn out and have his throneB
Fair mists of seraphs melt and fallO
Around Him changeless amid allO
Ancient of Days whose days go onB
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XVIII-
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He reigns below He reigns aloneB
And having life in love forgoneB
Beneath the crown of sovran thorns-
He reigns the Jealous God Who mourns-
Or rules with Him while days go onB
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XIX-
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By anguish which made pale the sunB
I hear Him charge his saints that noneB
Among his creatures anywhereP
Blaspheme against Him with despairP
However darkly days go onB
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XX-
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Take from my head the thorn wreath brownB
No mortal grief deserves that crownB
O supreme Love chief misery-
The sharp regalia are for Thee-
Whose days eternally go onB
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XXI-
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For us whatever's undergoneB
Thou knowest willest what is doneB
Grief may be joy misunderstoodC
Only the Good discerns the goodC
I trust Thee while my days go onB
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XXII-
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Whatever's lost it first was wonB
We will not struggle nor impugnB
Perhaps the cup was broken hereH
That Heaven's new wine might show more clearG
I praise Thee while my days go onB
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XXIII-
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I praise Thee while my days go onB
I love Thee while my days go onB
Through dark and dearth through fire and frostC
With emptied arms and treasure lostC
I thank Thee while my days go onB
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XXIV-
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And having in thy life depth thrownB
Being and suffering which are oneB
As a child drops his pebble smallO
Down some deep well and hears it fallO
Smiling so I THY DAYS GO ONB

Elizabeth Barrett Browning



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