Human Life-s Mystery Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAB EFGGEH IJKKIJ LMNNOM PQRRSQ TTTTTT TTUUTT VWTTVW XTTTYT YZDCYZ| We sow the glebe we reap the corn | A |
| We build the house where we may rest | B |
| And then at moments suddenly | C |
| We look up to the great wide sky | D |
| Inquiring wherefore we were born | A |
| For earnest or for jest | B |
| - | |
| The senses folding thick and dark | E |
| About the stifled soul within | F |
| We guess diviner things beyond | G |
| And yearn to them with yearning fond | G |
| We strike out blindly to a mark | E |
| Believed in but not seen | H |
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| We vibrate to the pant and thrill | I |
| Wherewith Eternity has curled | J |
| In serpent twine about God s seat | K |
| While freshening upward to His feet | K |
| In gradual growth His full leaved will | I |
| Expands from world to world | J |
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| And in the tumult and excess | L |
| Of act and passion under sun | M |
| We sometimes hear oh soft and far | N |
| As silver star did touch with star | N |
| The kiss of Peace and Righteousness | O |
| Through all things that are done | M |
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| God keeps His holy mysteries | P |
| Just on the outside of man s dream | Q |
| In diapason slow we think | R |
| To hear their pinions rise and sink | R |
| While they float pure beneath His eyes | S |
| Like swans adown a stream | Q |
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| Abstractions are they from the forms | T |
| Of His great beauty exaltations | T |
| From His great glory strong previsions | T |
| Of what we shall be intuitions | T |
| Of what we are in calms and storms | T |
| Beyond our peace and passions | T |
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| Things nameless which in passing so | T |
| Do stroke us with a subtle grace | T |
| We say Who passes they are dumb | U |
| We cannot see them go or come | U |
| Their touches fall soft cold as snow | T |
| Upon a blind man s face | T |
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| Yet touching so they draw above | V |
| Our common thoughts to Heaven s unknown | W |
| Our daily joy and pain advance | T |
| To a divine significance | T |
| Our human love O mortal love | V |
| That light is not its own | W |
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| And sometimes horror chills our blood | X |
| To be so near such mystic Things | T |
| And we wrap round us for defence | T |
| Our purple manners moods of sense | T |
| As angels from the face of God | Y |
| Stand hidden in their wings | T |
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| And sometimes through life s heavy swound | Y |
| We grope for them with strangled breath | Z |
| We stretch our hands abroad and try | D |
| To reach them in our agony | C |
| And widen so the broad life wound | Y |
| Which soon is large enough for death | Z |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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