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 BBOOBI | A |
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The face which duly as the sun | B |
Rose up for me with life begun | B |
To mark all bright hours of the day | C |
With hourly love is dimmed away | C |
And yet my days go on go on | D |
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II | A |
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The tongue which like a stream could run | B |
Smooth music from the roughest stone | E |
And every morning with ' Good day' | C |
Make each day good is hushed away | C |
And yet my days go on go on | D |
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III | A |
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The heart which like a staff was one | B |
For mine to lean and rest upon | D |
The strongest on the longest day | C |
With steadfast love is caught away | C |
And yet my days go on go on | D |
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IV | - |
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And cold before my summer's done | B |
And deaf in Nature's general tune | F |
And fallen too low for special fear | G |
And here with hope no longer here | H |
While the tears drop my days go on | D |
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V | - |
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The world goes whispering to its own | E |
This anguish pierces to the bone | E |
And tender friends go sighing round | C |
What love can ever cure this wound ' | - |
My days go on my days go on | D |
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VI | - |
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The past rolls forward on the sun | B |
And makes all night O dreams begun | B |
Not to be ended Ended bliss | I |
And life that will not end in this | I |
My days go on my days go on | D |
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VII | - |
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Breath freezes on my lips to moan | E |
As one alone once not alone | E |
I sit and knock at Nature's door | J |
Heart bare heart hungry very poor | K |
Whose desolated days go on | D |
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VIII | - |
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I knock and cry Undone undone | B |
Is there no help no comfort none | B |
No gleaning in the wide wheat plains | L |
Where others drive their loaded wains | L |
My vacant days go on go on | D |
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IX | L |
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This Nature though the snows be down | M |
Thinks kindly of the bird of June | F |
The little red hip on the tree | - |
Is ripe for such What is for me | - |
Whose days so winterly go on | D |
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X | L |
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No bird am I to sing in June | F |
And dare not ask an equal boon | F |
Good nests and berries red are Nature's | L |
To give away to better creatures | L |
And yet my days go on go on | D |
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XI | - |
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I ask less kindness to be done | B |
Only to loose these pilgrim shoon | B |
Too early worn and grimed with sweet | C |
Cool deadly touch to these tired feet | C |
Till days go out which now go on | B |
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XII | - |
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Only to lift the turf unmown | B |
From off the earth where it has grown | B |
Some cubit space and say Behold | C |
Creep in poor Heart beneath that fold | C |
Forgetting how the days go on | B |
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XIII | - |
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What harm would that do Green anon | B |
The sward would quicken overshone | B |
By skies as blue and crickets might | C |
Have leave to chirp there day and night | C |
While my new rest went on went on | B |
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XIV | - |
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From gracious Nature have I won | B |
Such liberal bounty may I run | B |
So lizard like within her side | C |
And there be safe who now am tried | C |
By days that painfully go on | B |
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XV | - |
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A Voice reproves me thereupon | B |
More sweet than Nature's when the drone | B |
Of bees is sweetest and more deep | N |
Than when the rivers overleap | N |
The shuddering pines and thunder on | B |
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XVI | - |
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God's Voice not Nature's Night and noon | B |
He sits upon the great white throne | B |
And listens for the creatures' praise | - |
What babble we of days and days | - |
The Day spring He whose days go on | B |
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XVII | - |
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He reigns above He reigns alone | B |
Systems burn out and have his throne | B |
Fair mists of seraphs melt and fall | O |
Around Him changeless amid all | O |
Ancient of Days whose days go on | B |
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XVIII | - |
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He reigns below He reigns alone | B |
And having life in love forgone | B |
Beneath the crown of sovran thorns | - |
He reigns the Jealous God Who mourns | - |
Or rules with Him while days go on | B |
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XIX | - |
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By anguish which made pale the sun | B |
I hear Him charge his saints that none | B |
Among his creatures anywhere | P |
Blaspheme against Him with despair | P |
However darkly days go on | B |
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XX | - |
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Take from my head the thorn wreath brown | B |
No mortal grief deserves that crown | B |
O supreme Love chief misery | - |
The sharp regalia are for Thee | - |
Whose days eternally go on | B |
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XXI | - |
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For us whatever's undergone | B |
Thou knowest willest what is done | B |
Grief may be joy misunderstood | C |
Only the Good discerns the good | C |
I trust Thee while my days go on | B |
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XXII | - |
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Whatever's lost it first was won | B |
We will not struggle nor impugn | B |
Perhaps the cup was broken here | H |
That Heaven's new wine might show more clear | G |
I praise Thee while my days go on | B |
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XXIII | - |
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I praise Thee while my days go on | B |
I love Thee while my days go on | B |
Through dark and dearth through fire and frost | C |
With emptied arms and treasure lost | C |
I thank Thee while my days go on | B |
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XXIV | - |
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And having in thy life depth thrown | B |
Being and suffering which are one | B |
As a child drops his pebble small | O |
Down some deep well and hears it fall | O |
Smiling so I THY DAYS GO ON | B |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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