From -the Soul-s Travelling- Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCADEFGCCHIJ KIKLLIMNMNOPQINRRN| God God | A |
| With a child s voice I cry | B |
| Weak sad confidingly | C |
| God God | A |
| Thou knowest eyelids raised not always up | D |
| Unto Thy love as none of ours are droop | E |
| As ours o er many a tear | F |
| Thou knowest though Thy universe is broad | G |
| Two little tears suffice to cover all | C |
| Thou knowest Thou who art so prodigal | C |
| Of beauty we are oft but stricken deer | H |
| Expiring in the woods that care for none | I |
| Of those delightsome flowers they die upon | J |
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| O blissful Mouth which breathed the mournful breath | K |
| We name our souls self spoilt by that strong passion | I |
| Which paled Thee once with sighs by that strong death | K |
| Which made Thee once unbreathing from the wrack | L |
| Themselves have called around them call them back | L |
| Back to Thee in continuous aspiration | I |
| For here O Lord | M |
| For here they travel vainly vainly pass | N |
| From city pavement to untrodden sward | M |
| Where the lark finds her deep nest in the grass | N |
| Cold with the earth s last dew Yea very vain | O |
| The greatest speed of all these souls of men | P |
| Unless they travel upward to the throne | Q |
| Where sittest THOU the satisfying ONE | I |
| With help for sins and holy perfectings | N |
| For all requirements while the archangel raising | R |
| Unto Thy face his full ecstatic gazing | R |
| Forgets the rush and rapture of his wings | N |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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